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...family...With Britain now the most obese country in western Europe, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall in his TV series Britain’s Fat Fight is on a mission: asking food producers, restaurants and the government to confront the crisis. Two-thirds of us are already overweight and there's no doubt that our poor diet and lack of exercise is slowly killing us, as well as crippling...

...families in a society which is based on neoliberal principles, where individuals are expected to take responsibility not only to provide for their families but also to work on themselves to better themselves with minimum support from the state. In family situations this translates to the practices of intensive parenting, which essentially describes the competitive nature...