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DH " sacks " obesity advisory group
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- Published on Tuesday, 15 November 2011
The Department of Health has disbanded its Expert Advisory Group on Obesity and is replacing it with a new National Ambition Review Group - whatever that may mean. It states that it has a new approach to public health and, therefore, new advisory arrangements for obesity are required. It will bring together key partners and experts from the academic and scientific field.
If the old expert group was responsibible for the recent abysmal strategy, " Call to Action " [see October 20th 2011], it is probably better that it be disbanded. It allowed vested interests, particularly in the food industry, to take a strangehold on public health and render ineffectual any strategy to beat the current epidemic. What the Department of Health should be seeking out now is independent thinking to overcome, arguably, the UK's most pressing health problem. It would be nice to know who are the key partners with " ambition ".