Correspondent Ernest Izett (‘People need strong willpower when eating', March 14), has gone too far using the victims of concentration camps as examples of people on healthy diets.

Those that actually survived were walking skeletons, whose condition was caused by the monsters who guarded them, starving them to death, not because they ate healthy or turned away pudding.

Of course he never saw (was he a guard?) a fat person in a concentration camp. What he would have seen is mountains of the dead, black smoke pouring out of crematorium chimneys. How dare E Izett use one of mankind's most atrocious acts against a race of humanity to promote healthy eating. It beggars belief.

W Jessop, Mount Maunganui.