Wolverhampton: 69.8% Of Adults Classified As Obese

I think I recall Boston being named as having the highest percentage of overweight adults in England. That was about three years ago so not sure if still true.

Billy Boston

Nick, I remember various numbers/places being bandied about in the last few years as to where the fattest people were in the UK, but I can't ever recall it being anywhere near as much as almost 70%.

That really is staggering - and ultimately very worrying as to where this ridiculous explosion in obesity is going to stop, if it ever does.

Yes, a shocking statistic. Especially as (I think) being obese is a step up from being fat or overweight.

Hmmm. Time to increase the tolerances? Then you could make people fat or thin whichever suited your porpoise!

It seems to me that foodstuffs that used to be considered a treat are now consumed on an everyday basis - and in much bigger quantities.

It's remarkable the number of people who use walking aids who are overweight.

You'd think they'd have the sense to lose weight if they've got a problem with getting about.

Wouldn't surprise me if that was a national statistic, just walking along pavements now requires the overtaking skills of Lewis Hamilton, it's like a japanese game show just trying to get to anywhere in the city.

A staggering statistic indeed Tommy. Little wonder why your svelte and chic slimline far-sighted friend The Count wants nothing to do with the "out of control drunks" and 'muppets' of that beleaguered town.

Once again the Great Man is seemingly vindicated. How right he surely was when he loftily instructed such recidivists to "find another county" when they foolishly sought refuge in Staffordshire. If ONLY he could be put in charge of European border control.

Very funny Alun!

Tommy, I think takeaways and going to fastfood outlets was a treat when I was a kid, now it seems the norm.

It isn't obesity, Tommy, it's a hitherto underrecognised condition known as VDD - Vertical Dimension Deficiency.  It means they are too short for their body weight.

It's not their fault. It's their genes and glands.

"In Wolverhampton 69.8% of adults are either overweight or obese, compared with 64% nationally."

Just think of the edge that normal size people have got over these ugly tubs of lard.

Mind you they'll have the edge if they're unemployed. They'll get more dole money.

The fatties will be regarded as disabled and get extra cash for gorging themselves to bursting point.
While normal size people just get basic JSA.

As the late, great Maggie Thatcher once said... We need a little less understanding and a bit more stigmatising.

I blame the orange chip - a black country delicacy

I recall reading the other day that one of our gold medal winning rowers
was technically  obese!! so take that 69% figure with a pinch of the salt
that is bad for you.

I'm just glad that the children of Wolverhampton, the Black Country and the entire Midlands region WON'T be stuffing their faces with Peppa Pig/Funny Feet ice cream lollies. They can hunt high and low for these ice-creams as long as they like, but thank the Lord these delicious items are all safely locked up beyond their reach in Tommy's SIX huge deep freezers.

it's overweight OR obese, not obese.

I have never seen anyone in the Wolverhampton area who looks as though they have more than £10 to their name

If you've got no money, I'd expect you to be thin

So what are they eating?

Meat, fish and fresh fruit and vegetables are the most expensive and least fattening foods.  So it stands to reason poor people are more likely to be fat on that basis alone.

That's abuse of Wulfrunians, reported.

Does this figure change during Ramadan ?

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bullsh1t.

boll0x

clydebank.

root veg soup with bread rolls.... cheap and healthy
vege bolognese with pasta.... cheap and low fat and basically healthyish
vege chilli with rice... cheap and low fat and basically healthyish
baked potatoes with Sausage casserole with no sausages .... cheap and low fat and 5 of your 5 a day

I'll go through the recipes with you if you want. 

bananas and apples and oranges cost about 15p each I think.  unsugared fruit juice is about 50p a litre.

People eat junk food because they are lazy not because they are poor.

Dr Crppen has a point about walking aids. Most people under 70 riding mobility scooters do tend to have @rses that hang over both sides of the seats on these things.

Obviously the best way to stop fat people being fat is to help them do even less exercise than they already do.

Sausage casserole with no sausages? Is that a vegetable casserole then?

Yeah, tried it the other day and it was cracking.  Fry some onions and celery, tin of Chickpeas, swede, tin of tomatoes, passata, some herbs just chuck it on top of 2 or 3 baked spuds add spinach and peas on the side, was well good.  Bolognese without mince, chilli con carne without carne, loads of meals are still really good if you just remove the meat.

Your recipes are based on rice bread potatoes and pasta, the four cheapest foods which are all fattening.  Meat and fish aren't.  Cheap sausages with low meat content are more fattening than high meat content.  Bacon with lots of fat is half the price of bacon without, cheap mince too.  Apples are expensive to the poorest in our society.

If you have money being relatively rich makes you more culpable, because you can afford a better diet. Your overall physical and mental health is likely to be better too which makes exercise easier.  It is also likely that you are likely to be less educated if you are poor, meaning you are less likely to be aware of good nutrition, or bought up in that environment.  It goes without saying that in the vast majority of cases you don't have to be fat if you are poor.

Removing the meat, as long as the meat is lean, is just going to make you fatter.

ffs nothing wrong with rice bread spuds and pasta.  All things in moderation. I am not suggesting you eat ten tonnes of the stuff a week.

Obviously if you are a glutton then you will get fat regardless, to a point, of what you eat.  Perhaps I should have added gluttony to idleness as to the reason people get fat.

Obesity crisis/foodbanks.

I'm confused.

Biggest help in saving money on food is a decent size freezer.  You can buy a lot of frozen stuff that is a lot cheaper, including fruit and veg.

The poorer you are the less likely you are to be able to buy in bulk, freeze it and save money.

It actually costs more to live when poor....that's not just food but housing, power, transport etc.

The missus is a hospital physio. Almost every patient they treat has a preventable or lifestyle-related problem, and is significantly overweight. Strain on NHS is obvious. For many, even most (particularly women of a certain ethnic group), they have done no significant exercise in their adult lives. There are cultural issues that someone needs to be brave enough to address.

It doesn't help when we have people classifying Obesity as some sort of disease.

T&C -I've just bought a 5kg bag of rice. £12. Will last us till Spring at least.

Other dried food is incredibly cheap and healthy.

Great.....Let them eat rice