It wasn't just the high number of morbidly obese people I saw walking or attempting to waddle around that shocked me. Many were smoking on the street and raising a cigarette to their lips and inhaling was probably the nearest most got to any form of exercise. It was also the number of junk and fast food outlets that have taken the place of boutiques and judging by the number of people using them, they obviously believe that a fast diet plan and fast food are one of the same thing.

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I watched fat and obese people walking their fat and obese children into these fast food outlets and just walking past and seeing fat people stuffing this poison into their fat faces was enough to turn my stomach.

Do these people look at their children with any pride and possible sense of achievement? If what happened later in my visit is anything to go by, the answer is a misguided and totally delusional, emphatic yes.

As I was over on a rare visit to the UK, a business colleague invited me to dinner at his house in Surrey. This was the first time we had met as our dealings had always been over the telephone. A successful, intelligent businessman with a wife and three children ranging from 8 to 15 years old.

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To my dismay, the whole family ranged from being overweight to obese and as I consider eating in company to be an extremely personal thing, I knew I was in for a particularly unpleasant evening.

I was taught good table manners and etiquette and have passed this onto my children. I have often told them of the time I took one of my managers out to lunch to offer him promotion but when confronted by his table manners and eating habits, decided against it and offered the job to someone else.

So when the evening was passed by the whole family talking with food in their mouths, stuffing huge forkfuls into their mouths, chewing with open mouths and in such huge quantities, I found it difficult to consume anything. The volumous amounts and the speed at which they consumed their meal just amazed me as I have always taught my children to cut their food up into small manageable amounts, put their knife and fork down between mouthfuls and chew everything thirty two times. This ensures good digestion and gives your stomach time to catch up with your brain.

When the mother remarked about her children's healthy appetites and the father concurred it was as much as I could do not to tell them that I thought they ate like pigs and ate too much. If this is the mentality of someone who I consider to be intelligent, there is little chance for their children and little wonder that the western world is facing problems with infertility and conceiving babies.