'The State' in UK is now getting cross about 'hidden sugar' in all sorts of foods, saying it's responsible for the obesity crisis. No it isn't. It's people who eat too much who are responsible for their own obesity. Now they say food companies should reduce the sugar in everything so we don't get fat. Sugar has calories as does anything else which is edible. Eat far too many spuds or slices of toast and you get the same result. I am perfectly capable of deciding what goes in my mouth, and can read a food label, not being illiterate. Soon, only lettuce, celery and tomatoes will be available on supermarket shelves. There will be chocolate dealers on street corners at the dead of night. Crisps will be delivered under discreet packaging by clandestine internet companies. Tap water will be thick with statins, aspirin, fluoride, contraceptive hormones, vitamins and iron. It will hardly be in liquid form, but a kind of gloopy soup. In fact, the State may lock us all into mouth-guards, opened once a day by an official, and suitable, approved food stuffed in. By then, thank goodness, I shall have gone on to Crumpet Heaven In The Sky.