I was at the Freibad with my kids this week. And something stopped me. The number of seriously overweight children — children who will carry that weight for the rest of their lives unless something changes. And the thing that is not changing is the conversation. We are not having it.
This episode is about why silence about a real problem is not kindness. It covers the most successful public health intervention in modern history — the North Karelia Project in Finland, which reduced cardiovascular mortality by 84% over 40 years through community lifestyle change, not government policy. Why Sweden's tax-free gym subsidies have not moved the needle. Why Germany just quietly cut its fitness course tax relief while facing an €18.8 billion healthcare gap. And why the real problem is not policy — it is heroes. We are celebrating the wrong ones.
Plus: what body positivity got right, what it got catastrophically wrong, and what being a real lighthouse actually looks like.
Never Start Over Again is your weekly Monday reset — hosted by Rickard Long.
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