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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Health
Ian Jones

Rise in local areas in England with at least a third of adults obese

A growing number of local areas in England are estimated to have at least a third of adults living with obesity – many of them in the Midlands or the North East, new figures suggest.

Doncaster, Stockton-on-Tees and Walsall are among 44 local authorities in England where at least 33.3% of adults were likely to be obese in 2023/24.

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