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The Current State of the health of the UK population<br />
Currently two thirds of the adult population are overweight or obese, and it’s getting<br />
worse every day.<br />
‘Obesity is a greater burden on the UK’s economy than armed violence, war and<br />
terrorism, costing the country nearly £47bn a year’ (M c Kinney & co)<br />
The UK spends less than £638m a year on obesity prevention programmes – about<br />
1% of the social cost. (M c Kinney & co)<br />
But the country spends about £6bn a year on the medical costs of conditions related<br />
to being overweight or obese and a further £10 billion on diabetes.<br />
Today 25% of the nation is obese and 37% is overweight, if obesity were to reduce<br />
to 1993 levels, where 15% of the population were obese, we will avoid five million
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