Jamie Oliver is again in the news, almost demanding our Government to put a sugar tax on fizzy drinks. What a joke. Fizzy drinks are not the biggest problem but they are the easiest target.

This tax would be a waste of time if they didn't also tax confectionery, chocolate, biscuits and cakes – in fact just about everything we buy from the supermarket.

All are sugar-laden and with Easter approaching, supermarkets are drowning in chocolate. Why is it always someone else's problem? It's easy to blame others for our own inadequacies. Obesity is not the responsibility of food manufacturers. Sure – they make it – we buy it. If some people are too stupid to see or care about what their sugar, salt and fat-laden diets are doing to them I doubt there is anything anyone could say or do to change their behaviour.

Some of it is cultural, but most is plain laziness. I'm sure there are lots of people in society who can't cook because they've never been taught how.

That's where Google comes in handy.

We have to take responsibility for ourselves and stop blaming others for our own lack of control and discipline in this matter.

There is a diet called the Fresh Air & Fried Snow Balls diet and if house and rental prices, rates and power keep increasing that's what a lot of us will be living on.

S. Gussey, Omokoroa.