Boris Johnson will announce a new Government programme which will see GPs prescribe cycling to overweight patients in the new Government war on obesity and Covid-19.
The Prime Minister will roll out the Better Health campaign on Monday following his near-death experience with the disease which he partly blamed on his own weight.
It comes as research reveals that being overweight puts people at higher risk of falling seriously ill or dying from Covid-19.
The new anti-obesity campaign will see a ban on junk food TV ads before 9pm and encouraging doctors to issue "cycling prescriptions" for overweight patients.