Health chiefs pledge to tackle Great Yarmouth and childhood obesity ?blackspot'

[Northerner]

Health chiefs have come together to form a unique team to drive down the number of obese children in Great Yarmouth and Waveney - as figures reveal the east coast district has the fifth highest number of overweight youngsters in the country.

The area also tips East Anglia?s scales as having the region?s greatest percentage of overweight youngsters with 27.6pc, compared to 21.5pc in Norfolk (not including Yarmouth) and 21.9pc in Suffolk (not including Waveney).

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[trophywench]

Funny they should say that; we were in Yarmouth just last year and remarked upon it then that the place also apparently attracts squillions of overweight holiday makers too. The fat family from (?) Formby waddling down the prom in front of us - if we passed them once on our perambulation, we passed gawd knows how many similar ......

Gave up trying to find anywhere that sold anything we fancied eating for lunch as we didn't want fish or burgers or chips or ice cream. All we wanted was a blooming sandwich and a cup of coffee, we weren't exactly expecting Delia to appear and knock us up a healthy salad drizzled with balsamic and EVOO .....