Action on #obesity must not be linked to #COVID19. This leads to further stigma and victim-blaming. If it has to be linked as a 'wake-up call' then let's not be selective and do so for the other 'risk factors' too like poverty. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-obesity-strategy-unveiled-as-country-urged-to-lose-weight-to-beat-coronavirus-covid-19-and-protect-the-nhs

A healthy diet is simply not affordable to poor families. Banning promotions & advertising and ‘bike prescriptions’ don’t make healthy food affordable. Poverty is strongly linked to both obesity and covid. It’s the obvious thing to action as a pandemic ‘wake-up call’.

People most vulnerable to getting covid and getting it badly are the same groups with mutiple disadvantage vulnerable to many other health problems. Singling out a consequence (obesity) as a solution is not the way to go. Address the root of the problem: lifecourse inequalities.

It is genuinely expensive for many people to achieve a healthy diet. It’s not only about education. See for example the data below from @Food_Foundation looking at how much low income households need to spend of their disposable income to meet the govt’s healthy diet guideline.