Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
MORE than one in five adults are classed as officially obese in parts of East Lancashire, double the national average, new figures revealed today.
In total 53,600 adults in the area, around 12 per cent, are on the Obesity Register, which records GP patients with a BMI greater than or equal to 30 in the previous 15 months.
But in some towns the number soars to over 21 per cent, twice the national average of 10.5 per cent.
And experts fear the true problem may be even worse, as some obese people do not regularly visit their GP.
http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/9858039.Obesity_crisis_in_East_Lancashire/
In total 53,600 adults in the area, around 12 per cent, are on the Obesity Register, which records GP patients with a BMI greater than or equal to 30 in the previous 15 months.
But in some towns the number soars to over 21 per cent, twice the national average of 10.5 per cent.
And experts fear the true problem may be even worse, as some obese people do not regularly visit their GP.
http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/9858039.Obesity_crisis_in_East_Lancashire/
