Obesity-related hospital admissions in England rise by 15%

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Call for action from food industry on sugar and salt as NHS struggles to cope

The NHS is under increasing pressure from the inexorable rise in obesity in England, where there were more than 700,000 obesity-related hospital admissions in 2017/18, up by 100,000 on the previous year, according to the latest figures.

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The NHS is creaking under the strain of Britain's fatties!

Ummm, are you bodyshaming? BodyPositive (HealthNegative)

Look at the carbohydrate and sugar consumption figures together with these numbers.

Looks like a soup diet is in order !

The lowest levels of overweight and obesity were in London and the highest were in Yorkshire and the Humber and the West Midlands.

Most adults in England – 67% of men and 62% of women - were either obese or overweight. Men were more likely to be overweight (40%) than obese, while women were more evenly split with 31% overweight and 30% obese.

I was gonna have fish and salad but that photo just ruined it... cheeseburgers it is

An unhelpful stigmatising image discussing obesity-related hospital admissions. We need to stop the blame culture surrounding obesity in order to improve care obesity stigma

. That’s literally NOT what the article says. Joint problems? Pregnancy? Gallstones? Counted as “Obesity” for convenience, not accuracy.

Dia be tus

UK folk......is Mackey and Wine a thing over there? As a yank I've never heard of such a thing, but is that a real thing?

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