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make it more difficult to lose and maintain a desirable weight. It is likely to be a
combination of these factors, and it is possible that the causation, if it exists, is cyclic.
Figure 104: Percentage of overweight and obese by employment status for Hull
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8.5.8 Social Marketing and Factors Influencing Obesity
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Considerable Social Marketing work has been undertaken examining behaviour and
attitudes to diet, exercise and obesity in Hull with the aim of providing more relevant
information to help people lose and maintain their weight. A report specifically on
Obesity and Exercise using information from the 2007 Health and Lifestyle Survey also
examines associations between the prevalence of obesity (and exercise) and other
factors such as general health, measures of deprivation, and other risk factors such as
alcohol, etc. This report showed that the prevalence of overweight and obesity were
higher for people living in more deprived areas who tended to have a higher prevalence
of overweight and obesity, and people who exercised less frequently were more likely to
be overweight or obese and people with poorer health were more likely to be overweight
or obese. However, many of these factors are interrelated and are confounding factors
(see section 12.2 on page 772 for explanation of a confounding factor). This report is
available at www.hullpublichealth.org.
Further information on attitudes to obesity are given in section 8.3 on page 244 and in
section 8.5.5 on page 293.
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