Ricky Gervais says obese people should be greeted in the street as "fatty" to shame them into losing weight.

Ricky Gervais calls for more stigma around obesity
Article in the Telegraph

Gervais's suggestion of insulting fat people to help them lose weight, apart from being cruel and silly, would not help them to lose weight. They need the correct information in order to lose weight. - Here is some correct information:

Reducing calories/fat/sugar will NOT reduce obesity, because obesity is caused by salt sensitivity leading on to fluid retention/sodium retention/water retention and weight gain. - The safe, sure, fast way to reduce obesity is to avoid salt and salty food, because this reduces the fluid retention.

Lose weight, reduce your risk of most cancers, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, stroke, heart disease, heart attack, vascular dementia, osteopenia, osteoporosis, hypercholesterolaemia, depression, liver and kidney problems, and improve your health in many other ways without drugs or expense by eating less salt! - Try it! - You will feel so much better!

Read my Mensa article on Obesity and the Salt Connection

And see Sodium in foods and

Associated health conditions

See advice for pregnant mothers

and FAT RETENTION