Personal responsibility health agenda 'welcomed'

But will it be accepted by those who are personally responsible?

The stress on personal responsibility for health is being welcomed by experts - but they warn people still need some help in improving their lifestyles.

Ministers have been vocal about the need for people to take charge of changing their own behaviour instead of relying on state intervention.

It is impossible for state intervention to work except for the reasonable intervention of having people pay for their irresponsibility, e.g., higher insurance costs borne by fat people receiving public benefits.

It cannot work the other way around.