Sugar Is To Blame For Obesity Epidemic - Not Couch Potato Habits

You cannot outrun a bad diet, experts warn, as they suggest greed, not sloth is causing Britain's expanding waistlines
By Laura Donnelly
The Telegraph
Apr. 27, 2015

Sugar and carbohydrates are the real culprits in the obesity epidemic - and the public has been falsely told that couch potato lifestyles are to blame, a new report has claimed.

Writing in the British Journal Of Sports Medicine, they said poor diet now generates more disease than physical inactivity, alcohol and smoking combined.

The editorial, by a group of cardiologists and sports experts, says that while obesity has rocketed in the past 30 years there has been little change in physical activity levels.

"This places the blame for our expanding waistlines directly on the type and amount of calories consumed," they write.

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