Dr. Eva Orsmond:

I would like to respond to the comment about the very long queue for bariatric surgery. I would not even mention that because I would be ashamed of that. If a country has a very long queue for bariatric surgery it is a sign of a very sick society. We should not even get that far because that means we are again treating the symptoms and not the cause. That is not a solution. We should start dealing with the problem long before that, and it comes down to education. All the members have agreed that the starting point must be at home with parents, but if the parents do not know how to educate because they do not have the knowledge they must be given the tools to educate. That is where it must start.

We must not drift. We must remember that food is what we put in our mouths every minute. We were taking pictures in front of the House at 9.30 this morning and four teenagers walked past us eating crisps. I am sure all the members noticed that. They were eating crisps at 9.30 in the morning passing by the House. If those children were smoking the members would have said, "Goodness. Children smoking at that age," yet they are allowed to eat crisps at 9.30 in the morning.