Male and female body weight issues since WW2!

The 1950s
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Skinny kids
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Fat kids
15% of kids in Stockton-On-Tees, 17%-25 of all British kinds and 4.5% of Adur kids are fat. Greater London, North Yorkshire, Staffordshire and Merseyside are also very roly-poly. The thinnest county is West Sussex. Leicestershire has the average level of 8%.

22.9% of U.K. 4-5 year olds and 31.6% of 10-11 year olds are fat or obese.

11.3% of London's 4-5 year olds and 20.8% of London's 10-11 year olsd are fat or obese.

The use of slimming drugs has gone up 15-fold between 1999 and 2006!

Adult BMI
BMI 24.9 in 1960 to 26.5 in 2005.

Also see

 * Healthy food tips