Britain is starting to ‘turn the tide’ on obesity with weight loss jabs set to put decades of growth into reverse, experts say.
A global analysis found the obesity crisis is slowing down or tapering off and could already be retreating in some countries.
Researchers led by a team at Imperial College London found the slowdown in high-income nations first occurred in school-aged children, followed by adults.
Their work, published in the journal Nature, looked at more than four decades of health data from 200 countries and territories, covering the period from 1980 to 2024.
When it comes to the UK, experts found the
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