Jamie Oliver's 'ridiculous' fat clinic that cost the taxpayer £60 for every pound of weight lost in UK's most obese town

Finally, some results from the overweight IMHO predatory opportunist, Jamie Oliver's doomed-to-fail, idiot's approach to weight loss.

Jamie Oliver's attempts to cut obesity in Britain's most overweight town have cost the taxpayer £60 every pound in weight lost by patients.

The weight-loss clinic in Rotherham has been branded 'ridiculous' after the cost of the initiative emerged.

The Rotherham Institute of Obesity was created after Jamie Oliver's healthy eating campaign named the South Yorkshire town as the 'fat capital' of the UK.

But figures have shown the clinic spent £775,000 treating 1,600 overweight adults and 200 children over 18 months trying to tackle Rotherham's fat obesity crisis.

Around two thirds of adults in the town are overweight or obese but between them, patients lost just 6,100kg, or 3.38kg (7lb) each.

The cost of the initiative in relation to the amount of weight lost equates to £60 for every pound lost as part of the scheme.

Peter Thirlwall, an independent member of Rotherham Council, said the initiative was a 'terrible waste of taxpayers' money'.

You bet.