As a woman I am exposed to articles or discussions about weight on a daily basis.

Practically every magazine will have something about it somewhere and I’ve yet to meet a single female who is content with her size, shape or appearance. No matter how confident they may be there’s always something they’d like to change and they don’t mind discussing it

Not so men and boys.

Unfortunately for the male population there are very few magazines targeted at them which actually ever raise the issue, and this is a shame because the amount of overweight and obese boys has doubled in the past ten years.

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Last week in the newspaper a respected doctor belonging to the British Medical Association dared to suggest the only reason the majority of people are fat is because they eat too much.

It is no longer acceptable to blame genetics or other medical conditions.  Of course there are a few which require drugs, and do indeed have an effect on weight, but most people don’t take them. 

Your genes certainly define your features, hair and eye colouring and certain other physical attributes.  However, they don’t determine what you put in your mouth – YOU do.

The doctor, Hamish Meldrum, said obesity is “over medicalised” and that people use fancy labels to suggest a condition for their problem when in reality all they needed to do was change their eating habits.  The “condition” from which they suffered was one of lifestyle, which could be changed with the right attitude.

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I’ve just spent several hours in the waiting room at my local hospital.  I have problems with my eyes and this was a scheduled check up to see how they had fared since my last visit.

I have what is known as CSR – central serious retinitus, which basically means fluid leaks into the back of my eyes and forms blisters making it difficult to see.

The problem is fluid, being precisely that, moves around, so sometimes I can see clearly with glasses and sometimes I can’t.

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