Obesity and Diabetes Rates Raise Concerns

Obesity and Diabetes Rates Raise Concerns: A quarter of all deaths in England over the past three decades had obesity as an underlying cause, according to a new study. Figures published in the European Journal of Public Health indicate that between 1995 and 2006, obesity-related death rates rose by an average of 7.5 percent for men and four per cent for women year-on-year. The prevalence of obesity in Britain has almost trebled in the last quarter of a century, particularly in urban areas, placing an increasing burden on the NHS. The BMA recently reported that this trend looks set to continue with one in five children in the UK being overweight and one in ten classified as obese.