It's a bit too easy to blame microwaves, without supplying any evidence, except their introduction was at the same time as the increase in obesity occured.
What about the increased numbers of freezers at the same time, or the massive rise in the number of takeaways?
In Oswaldtwistle in 1984 there was four chippies, now there are twenty three takeaways.
Personally I blame Thatcher, and the free market economy, for the increase in obesity.
