Daily Mail, Wednesday, August 7, 2019 Page 13
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Amazon worker
quits as Lottery
win gives him
money ‘for life’
Af ter the sugar tax, are we
now set for a calorie tax?
Hormone jab helps obese
shed 10lb in just 4 weeks
A SLIMMING drug that con-
trols appetite helped obese
patients lose 10lb in a month.
Scientists at Imperial Col-
lege London formulated the
drug after they found that
severely obese patients who
had just had a gastric bypass
experienced a huge boost in
hormones that reduce
appetite, aid weight loss and
improve the body’s ability
to use up sugar.
The team combined thethree hormones into a
solution which was slowly
injected for 12 hours a day
into 15 people, who lost an
average of 4.4kg (9lb 11oz).
The jab also reduced blood
sugar levels in diabetics.
Professor Tricia Tan, of
Imperial College, said:
‘Although this is a small study,
our treatment is promising
and has shown significant
improvements in patients’
health in only four weeks.’from Peterborough, Cambridgeshire,
studied screenwriting at university in
Dundalk, Ireland, and will now focus on
creating his own scripts full-time.
He said: ‘I can turn my passion into a
job – something I never thought I could
do. It’s just incredible. I am 24 and I am
now literally set for life.’
The kind-hearted winner, who lives with
his sister Sarah, will make sure his familyare looked after, in particular his brother,
whose autism he describes as ‘about as
serious as it gets’. He added that robert,
23, is ‘mainly non-verbal, but can say a
few names and certain words’.
The jackpot is the equivalent of earning
£205,600 per year. By comparison, the
average Briton earned £29,600 last year,
and Prime Minister Boris Johnson can
claim up to £158,754 a year. Mr Weymeswon the draw on July 29, when his Lucky
Dip ticket matched the five main num-
bers – 18, 21, 23, 34 and 39 – and ‘Life’ ball
number 3.
He is the fourth person to win the top
prize since the ‘Set for Life’ game
launched in March – but the first to go
public. In the event that a winner dies
before the 30-year period is over, the
remaining cash goes to their estate.An AMAZOn worker who has won
£10,000 a month for the next 30 years
has quit his job to pursue his dream
of becoming a scriptwriter.
Dean Weymes, 24, yesterday became
the first winner of the national Lot-
tery’s ‘Set for Life’ game to go public.
The jackpot win – worth £3.6million in
total – will help him complete his ‘bucket
list’ of things he wants to do, including a
trip to Disneyland Paris, a hot air balloon
ride and a tandem sky dive. He will also
use the money to help pay for care for his
brother robert, who is severely autistic.
But while he was pictured spraying
champagne yesterday, the cash will not
go towards any celebratory alcohol – Mr
Weymes is teetotal.
until his win, Mr Weymes worked shifts
and weekends for Amazon’s transport
team but he has now resigned from the
internet giant. ‘I didn’t have to give it a
second thought,’ he said. ‘It is an incred-
ible feeling that I will be getting £10,
every month for 30 years – I am literally
living the dream.’
Mr Weymes had not looked at the previ-
ous night’s lottery results when he arrived
at work at 7am on July 30.
After checking his numbers on his
morning break, he realised he had won
and swiftly headed home, telling work he
was sick. The lucky employee quit the
next day, citing ‘won Lottery/retirement?’
as his reason for leaving – which he said
baffled the Hr department. Mr Weymes,By Christian GysinChampagne
feeling: Dean
Weymes
celebrates
yesterday –
although he
is teetotalMInISTerS are being urged to
consider putting a ‘calorie tax’
on cakes, biscuits and other
processed food.
Health campaigners say a manda-
tory levy on sugary and fatty food is
needed to tackle the obesity crisis.
It follows the success of the sugar tax,
which came into force last year and
means fizzy drink manufacturers are
taxed at up to 24p a litre.
Campaign groups Action On Sugar and
Action On Salt are urging the Govern-
ment to extend the levy to all high-calorie
processed foods including ice cream,
biscuits, cakes and chocolate bars.
They say this will hold manufacturers
to account and lead to products with
‘excessive’ calories being reformulated
with less fat and sugar to make
them healthier. under the propos-
als, food firms would pay the levy
and then decide whether to pass
on the cost to consumers.
The tax would be based on the
‘traffic light’ nutritional labelling
system that shows foods high in
sugar, salt or fat.
So, for example, a cake that is
extremely high in calories couldbe taxed at around 24p per kg
(just over 10p per lb).
Campaigners are demanding
that funds raised through the levy
are ring-fenced and put towards
tackling childhood obesity.
They said fat is a bigger contrib-
utor to calories in the diet than
sugar and it is therefore essential
that manufacturers are encour-aged to reduce both. Two-thirds
of uk adults and one in five chil-
dren aged 11 are obese.
katharine Jenner, campaign
director of Action On Sugar and
Action On Salt, said: ‘If you want
people to make healthier choices,
you have to hit them in the pocket
where it hurts. unhealthy food
taxes are proven to be successful.It means you can still buy a
massive cake covered in cream
and chocolate, but it’s just going
to cost a bit more.
‘Cakes and biscuits are really
sugary foods and they’re currently
under a sugar reduction pro-
gramme from Public Health eng-
land. But it doesn’t make sense to
just incentivise manufacturers toreduce sugar when most of the
calories come from saturated fat.’
Campaigners said that the huge
variation in fat levels within cakes
and biscuits indicates that making
the products healthier is easily
achievable. In rich Tea biscuits,
saturated fat ranges from 1.2g to
7.2g per 100g, while the fat content
of Victoria sponges varies from 8.5g
to 24.7g per 100g, a study found.
Graham MacGregor, chairman
of Action On Sugar and Action On
Salt, said the success of the sugar
tax had been ‘remarkable’ in
making brands such as Irn-Bru
and Lucozade cut sugar content.
The lobby group will submit its
proposal for a calorie tax to the
Department of Health this
autumn. The sugar tax on soft
drinks was introduced in April last
year and is said to have taken
90million kg – 90,000 tons – of sugar
out of the nation’s diet so far.
However Prime Minister Boris
Johnson has previously decried
‘sin taxes’ on sugary and fatty
foods, warning they hit the poor
hardest. During the Tory leader-
ship campaign he vowed to freeze
such levies. The Department of
Health said it has no plans to
introduce a calorie tax.By Eleanor Hayward
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