Last week, a survey found Londoners to be the leanest people in Britain. But this week, according to other research, both England and Scotland are sitting on an obesity time bomb. Figures from the National Heart Forum from 1993 to 2007, based on the National Health Survey for England, suggests that 41 per cent of [...]

According to a recent poll, people “up North” not only have greater levels of poverty than people in the south, they also have greater levels of obesity too. A survey on obesity and weight loss revealed that people in the East Midlands are the fattest in the UK, with an average BMI of 28.9.