THE OBESE

The obesity problem is mostly down to boredom, I think. People like to snack when they're bored. It whiles away the hours. Pacman's life is proof of this.

Pacman is living in a maze, he's got nothing to do with himself, nowhere to go, Ms Pacman is rarely coming over. All he really wants to do is eat. Mostly, for Pacman, it's snack food, too. It's those little Ritz crackers that are forming the majority of his diet. Sometimes he takes the healthy option and has a piece of fruit, but I'm not sure if that balances up with the eating of ghosts. In fact, I'm no nutritionist but I'm not sure that anything really makes up for a diet of spectres. Still, for Pacman there's not much incentive to eat healthily. He's not getting out of that maze anytime soon, is he? Even if he uses that gate, he just ends up in the same maze way over on the other side.

And I think that's the lesson that Pacman teaches us. If you lived in a closed maze with no way out, ultimately you'd end up eating junk food and ghosts.