Adults living in one area of Nottinghamshire are far more likely to be obese than people from most other parts of the country, new data shows. Data from the NHS highlighted that Ashfield has the 28th highest proportion of obesity among adults in England, with a shocking one in three people over the age of 18 (33.2%) classed as obese.
The data also shows that seven in 10 adults in Ashfield (71.0%) were either overweight or obese in the year ending March 2021. Mansfield comes up as a close second throughout Nottinghamshire for the the percentage of people thought to be obese (32.5%), with Newark and Sherwood the third highest (29.7%).
At the other end of the scale Rushcliffe, the least deprived area in Nottinghamshire, also has the lowest obesity rates among adults in the area, with fewer than one in four (18.0%) classed as obese. Yet, more than 50% of people (56.4%) are still categorised as overweight or obese in Rushcliffe.
