The Obesity League Table
The Sunday Times publishes a list of the fattest boroughs in England. Here’s an extract.
A Department of Health survey, however, shows four local authority areas are far ahead of other parts of the country.
The areas affected are Swale, covering the north Kent towns of Sittingbourne, Sheerness and Faversham; Medway, also in Kent; Gateshead, in the northeast; and Tamworth, in the West Midlands.
Danny Dorling from Sheffield University has this to say.
Places such as Swale and Gateshead are “obesogenic environments”. This means they suffer from a complex mix of factors such as rising numbers of fast-food shops, few open spaces where people can exercise and road layouts that make it hard to walk or cycle.
I think he’s right. It would be interesting to see how levels compare in the various London boroughs.
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