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Men do indeed tend to put weight on their bellies, but it usually goes everywhere else too, while some drinkers get a beer belly while appearing slim elsewhere. I'm not convinced the idea of a beer belly is completely made up, but I don't know. Well not all calories from food have the same...

It's caused by excess calories. Although you can get one without drinking at all, the shape is more indicative of excess alcohol, possibly because your liver is burning alcohol instead of fat?

I don't want to fat shame people, just as I wouldn't want to shame people for their addiction to cigarettes or alcohol, or any other vice. What I am against, however, is pretending that there's nothing we can do about our vices. Pretending that we get fat because of genetics or an under-active...

Not because of calories on a menu though.

And he used that cherry picked study on children as an example of how much exercise the population as a whole does. The article is just nonsense.

It isn't. No, not for the majority, for everyone.

Oh bless them.

I tend to go for chicken tikka and rice, but sometimes I fancy something with sauce. How many calories do each of their dishes with sauce have?

That's an odd article. You say (and I agree) that food has become more unhealthy, but in the article he says we're consuming fewer calories than 1976. I suspect he's wrong and that (thanks in no small part to processed foods and sugary drinks) we're consuming more calories than we used to.

I didn't. We already have laws that apply differently to large companies than small businesses. It's not beyond the wit of man to require a chain of restaurants, with a fixed menu, to have stricter rules on declaring the calories in food, than a small business with a menu which regularly changes.

This bit is true, all calories are not equal. Yes it is. That is incorrect. Any article suggesting that you go into 'starvation mode' when you've got a bit of a calorie deficit is talking absolute shit. I'm not guessing. When you lose weight, yes your TDEE (Total Daily Energy Expenditure) will...

Bit difficult when you're in an Indian restaurant.

So it's impossible for the restaurant to give any sort of guide on how many calories are in the meal, but the waiter can tell you?

Please keep up at the back.

I do. I don't mither, I just choose something that works with my diet. I already do that. For me it would just be helpful to know what I'm eating. For overweight people it would help them make informed decisions and perhaps help with their health.

Yes of course. I wouldn't want something that makes running a small business too difficult. But implementing something that's workable would be good.

All they need is to make restaurants include the calorie count on the menus, so we can make more informed decisions.