The Fat of The Land

Unexpectedly, this set of musings on local Kent produce has taken a turn for the socially relevant with the recent news that 30% of the population of north Kent from Strood to Faversham is now obese.

While this mildly whimsical experiment was never intended to address nitty-gritty medical and health problems, it seems to me there is a rather ghastly irony that while Kent, and this part of the county in particular, has a prolific supply of good, healthy foodstuffs it appears a sizeable proportion of local people (no joke intended) don’t know how to use that or even where to get it from,

As I say, not for me to come up with solutions to this problem, but part of that solution has to be to do with people understanding better the benefits of eating healthily and local produce has a big part to play in that.

At the more day-to-day level, Mrs Y and I have started grazing local restaurants to test their local foodie credentials . . .  more on that next time.