Marsh is, putting it bluntly, an obesity denier. He is co-director of the Social Issues Research Council (SIRC), an Oxford-based group that analysed health figures and decided there is no obesity epidemic among children. The problem has been unhelpfully overhyped, says the SIRC.
The Scotsman article also mentioned some of the companies that have given money to Marsh's research group. They include Mars. It's hard to read the SIRC report without being reminded of the group's funders. Its full report concludes: "Banning advertising of 'junk food' to children and similar measures may be popular in some quarters, but they are targeted at the wrong age group." The SIRC, it is useful to know, has also received funds from Cadbury Schweppes and Kellogg's.
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