Sinéad Ryan: This may shock Professor Donal O’Shea, but choice plays a role in combatting obesity

The scholar did give me a chuckle this week with his six-pack of crisps confession

It's harder to pick the apple over the pain-au-chocolat, but life is about taking responsibility. Stock image: Getty

Sinéad Ryan

I don’t normally get my laughs from the medical profession but hats off to Professor Donal O’Shea, the HSE’s national clinical lead for obesity, for making me howl last week.

I too found myself in almost the same predicament as the learned doc when he fell foul of a scam. A trick. A ruse foisted on him by Big Food, he told a Safefood campaign.