In the case of Baker’s patients, however, their newfound ability to lose weight doesn’t translate into a change in mindset: a necessary step in getting people back to work. Baker, who is a private consultant, tells me that her patients initially work, but remain “overwhelmed, anxious and depressed, without recourse to healthy mechanisms” to resolve their problems. Although Labour’s policy is a laudable effort to target a crisis which affects almost 26 per cent of adults in the UK and is likely to help those who are overweight due to poor diets and ultra-fat foods. -transformed, it will not change the situation. look at the emotional complexities behind compulsive eating, which affects 50 percent of the overweight population, according to the National Eating Disorders Center.