Dear Mr Phillip Heath (from page 18 of todays Metro)

in your comment, you suggest that womens magazines wouldn't have to constantly run stories about how to lose weight if British women weren't so fat compared to other Europeans.

Firstly, i would like to point out what dangerous ground you are on here. Afterall, if British women are so fat, you're at risk of being sat on and suffocated next time you are in close proximity to one... expecially if she knows who you are.

Secondly, i would like to invite you to send in a photograph of your good self, so that we can see what a perfect specimine you must be to make such a statement.

Thirdly, British men aren't all that either you know. Mostly either, short, bald or with a beer belly to rival Homer Simpson and often with a frankly awful sense of style. If you take say for example, a London tube train full of people, i'm sure you will find that it is the men who are rude, smelly, sweaty and so intent on not taking of their oh so cool backpack, that they risk braking someones nose with it. The most unbelievable part is, that they somehow think they are God's gift to womenkind...as you probably do yourself and that they can get away with being so arrogant.

In all honesty, if women didn't see so many pictures of famous people looking startlingly malnourished and then being lead to believe that not only is this acceptable, but the way you must look in order to be desired and successful, then they would have far much more self-confidence.
And dear Mr Heath.... if the great British women had only half the self confidence that British men do, none of you would stand a cat in hells chance with the majority of them becasue they most probably wouldn't look at a British man once, let alone twice... much preferring a nice polite Frenchman or a sexy Italian.

So Mr Heath, next time you wish to make such a wildly incorrect statement...just think about it for a second or two...may i suggest a quick look in the mirror as well. Oh, and just so you know, such arrogance is really not attractive.

Yours fatly

Sammy