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Obesity and Diabetes

Did you know?

• It is estimated that 1 in 5 adults in the UK are overweight and about 15 in every 100 are obese. The numbers have trebled in the past 20 years.
• Lack of physical activity and poor diet are the key to rising rates of obesity
• High blood pressure and diabetes occurs three times as often in overweight people than among those with normal body weight
• Obesity is associated with higher levels of blood cholesterol.
• Being overweight increase one's risk of CHD, hypertension and type 2 diabetes in later life, not to mention osteoarthritis.
• Childhood obesity is on the increase in England.

Dr Nishan Wijenaike, Consultant Physician
West Suffolk Hospital Diabetes Service.
October 2002