The obesity HOTSPOTS in England revealed…so how does your county compare?

THE fattest areas of Britain have been revealed as figures show a quarter of the English population are obese.

Obesity levels are continuing to rise from 15 per cent of us being obese in 1993 to 26 per cent in 2014.

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Latest figures show that across England some 64.8 per cent of us are considered to be too fat, with 40.4 per cent of people overweight and 24.4 per cent deemed obese.

Between 2013 and 2015 the fattest areas were South Yorkshire, East Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and Northumberland, according to Public Health England's Active People Survey.

In South Yorkshire a whopping 72 per cent of people were considered to be overweight or obese - defined as having a body mass index (BMI) greater than 25.

Obesity is defined as a BMI of over 30, compared to the recommended healthy BMI of 19.5 to 24.9.

In East Yorkshire some 70.8 per cent of people were considered to be of excess weight, as were 69.9 per cent in Lincolnshire and 69.8 per cent in Northumberland.

At the other end of the scale, the City of London was the slimmest area in the country with just 47.9 per cent of people considered to be too fat.

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In Bristol 57.8 per cent of people are considered overweight or obese, as are 58.6 per cent in Greater London and 60.3 per cent in Oxfordshire.

Across the country in 2014 some 58 per cent of women and 65 per cent of men were considered overweight or obese.

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In the same year more than one in five kids in reception and one in three children in year six measured at overweight or obese.

There were more than 6,000 diagnoses of obesity in NHS hospitals in 2014/15 with a main or secondary procedure of bariatric surgery (weight-loss surgery).

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Some 60 per cent of bariatric surgery patients were aged between 35 and 54 and 76 per cent of them were women.

In the same year prescriptions for the treatment of obesity cost the NHS £15 million.

Being obese greatly increases a person's chances of developing deadly diseases like type two diabetes, 11 different types of cancer, stroke and heart disease.

World Cancer Research Fund estimates 25,000 cases of cancer could be prevented every year in the UK alone if everyone was a healthy weight.

According to the World Health Organisation heart disease was the biggest killer in 2015 followed by stroke, both of which were responsible for 15 million deaths worldwide.

In 2001 the then  and called for action to prevent it.

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