United Kingdom - Obesity in the US

British women and Maltese men topped European obesity ratings according to data released Thursday that also undermined popular belief that all French women are thin.The figures released by the European Union's statistics agency showed the proportion of obese adults ranging from eight ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Commercial weight-loss programmes such as Weight Watchers and Slimming World are more effective and cheaper than family doctor-based services led by specially trained staff, according to the findings of a study published on Friday.With a global epidemic of obesity ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Overweight patients told by their doctors to go to Weight Watchers lose around twice as much weight as people receiving standard weight loss care over 12 months, according to the findings of a study published on Thursday.In the first ...

A staggering 26 million Britons will be obese by 2030, placing a huge strain on health services, according to studies published on Friday highlighting the growing global obesity pandemic.Based on present trends, obesity rates in Britain will rise from 26 percent to ...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Obesity is most widespread in Britain and the United States among the world's leading economies and if present trends continue, about half of both men and women in the United States will be obese by 2030, health experts ...

One in every two American adults will be obese by 2030, adding hugely to the country's health costs, according to studies published on Friday that highlight the growing burden of the world's obesity pandemic.On present trends, 50-51 percent of American men and ...

A man weighing 22 stone launched a court appeal Monday against a decision to refuse him state-funded obesity surgery because he is not fat enough.Tom Condliff, 62, says he needs stomach surgery to save his life, but the state-run National Health Service ...

A British man weighing 22 stone (139 kilograms, 306 pounds) launched a court appeal Monday against a decision to refuse him state-funded obesity surgery because he is not fat enough.Tom Condliff, 62, says he needs stomach surgery to save his life, but ...

Britain is having to buy new ambulances and upgrade others to cope with a growing number of fat patients as an obesity crisis grips the country, a report said Thursday.Every ambulance service in Britain has had to buy extra-strength wheelchairs and wider ...

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - The stress of being exposed to economic insecurity may mean people living in countries with so-called "free market" economies are more likely to become obese, British researchers said on Friday.In a study in the journal Economics and Human ...

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Topic: United Kingdom

British women top EU obesity chart

Commercial diet schemes better than doctors' help

Weight Watchers works, scientific study finds

Obesity surge in Britain 'could cost £2bn'

Obesity to worsen, weigh heavily on healthcare costs

Obesity costs set to surge, with US in lead - Lancet studies

Obese man in court fight for surgery

Obese British man in court fight for surgery

Fat patients force British ambulances to supersize

Study suggests economic insecurity boosts obesity

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