The number of obese adults in England has doubled to 14.3million since the UK’s first obesity strategy was published in 1992, damning new analysis reveals.
John Major‘s Conservative government vowed to cut obesity among men by a quarter and women by a third in its pioneering ‘Health of the Nation’ document but rates subsequently soared.
Since then, a further 13 national obesity strategies have been published, each of which has failed to stem the crisis, the King’s Fund think tank says.
Its latest research shows there are 7.2 million more adults living with obesity than would be the case if rates had stayed
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