Let's Have Less Obesity

They’re saying that obesity’s the cause of much ill-health,

Which costs a massive fortune and’s a drain on the nation’s wealth;

It seems a third of those unemployed through illness are simply fat,

And there is surely a lesson which one ought to learn from that;

If fatness causes illness, then all doctors should prescribe

A diet and more exercise, with orders to imbibe

Far less food and drink each day, until their weight goes down,

And they are slim and sylph-like, instead of like a clown;

And it wouldn’t cost a penny, for those fatties to address

The problem of their weight because they’d just be eating less.