The diagram below is made up of a few facts on some key, largely avoidable ‘variants’: obesity, poverty, diabetes, air pollution and underlying health conditions. 

These facts are inextricably linked to trends in morbidity and mortality statistics. Not only do they impair many people’s quality of life and life expectancy, but their increasing cost on our healthcare system is a burden borne by taxpayers, governments, the economy, welfare programmes and civil society as a whole. 

But there is a choice: we can decide to reduce, replicate or reinforce such facts OR create a rather different portfolio of facts to represent what it means to be human in today’s world!