Bigger than the US: More 11-year-olds in England are now obese than in the US

[the game]

Britain is starting to overtake America in obesity rates, with the latest figures showing that more children in England are classed as obese at the age of 11 than in the US.

The proportion of US children aged 9 to 11 who are obese is 18.5%. The figure for children in their final year of primary school in England is at a record high of 20%.

Secondary-school children are also more obese. In the Health Survey for England, 23% of children aged 11 to 15 were obese in 2016. In America, 20.6% of children aged 12 to 15 were obese.

Simon Capewell, a professor in public health and policy at Liverpool University, said: 'Our worst fears have come to pass. We have completely adopted the American lifestyle with the inevitable consequences. The government needs to stand up for our children.

We have an obesity epidemic in children and this translates into an epidemic of disease in adults of diabetes, heart disease, stroke, common cancers and mental health problems. This is a preventable catastrophe.'

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) reports that UK adult obesity rates rose from 14% to 26.9%, between 1991 and 2015, an increase of 92%. This compares with an increase in obesity rates from 23.2% in 1991 to 38.2% in 2014, a rise of 65%, in America.

The US is the most obese nation of the 34 OECD countries and still has higher childhood obesity rates than the UK. However, the disclosure that a greater proportion of 11-year-olds in England are obese will put Theresa May under renewed pressure to clamp down on junk food marketing.

May is to unveil a new anti-obesity strategy within weeks. The mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, announced this month that he plans to ban ads for foods high in salt, fat and sugar from the capital's Tube and bus network.

A government report has warned that obesity rates are likely to rise from a quarter of adults to half by 2050, costing the NHS about £10bn a year. The wider economic costs are put at £50bn annually.

Children in state schools in England have weight and height measured in reception year, aged four to five, and year 6, aged 10 to 11. The data is submitted to NHS Digital.

Wales only measures reception children, with 14.5% found to be overweight and a further 11.7% obese. Scotland records weight and height in first year of primary when 12% of children are at risk of being overweight and 10% at risk of being obese.

The most recent NHS data, for 2016-17, shows that nearly a quarter of reception children in England were overweight or obese. In year 6, it was over a third. The proportion of children in reception classified as obese stood at 9.6%. The proportion who were obese in year 6 rose from 18.3% in 2007-8 to 20% in 2016-17.

Areas with the highest rates of child obesity include Barking and Dagenham in east London at 29.2%, Sandwell in the West Midlands at 27.8% and Copeland in Cumbria at 25.1%.

Separate data from the Health Survey for England shows the proportion aged 11 to 15 who are obese rose from 19% in 2007 to 23% in 2016.

In America, the data is gathered by the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. It uses a different benchmark, but the figures show a smaller proportion of children are classified as obese.

Tam Fry, chairman of the National Obesity Forum, a health campaign group, said: ' We need far more radical policies with a complete ban on advertising fatty and sugary foods.'

The Department of Health said: 'We know child obesity is one of our greatest public health challenges. That's why our obesity plan goes further than any other country. Our soft drinks industry levy has removed [large amounts] of sugar from children's diets.'

I notice how everyone wants to talk about the obesity epidemic in the US but some European countries are starting to overtake the US in obesity rates.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ed-States.html

I"m also including some statistics.

https://renewbariatrics.com/uk-obesity-statistics/

[Dead Moose Fandango]

This is what you get, Britain. This is what you get when you hide a kid under the stairs and feed everything to the other one!

[Independent voter]

Michel Obama's thing was childhood obesity and she came up with some school menus that had healthy meals.

Kids were complaining the small meals, getting only one hotdog, etc.

[Budong]

Trump just announced a new initiative to fatten up the 11 year olds in the United States:

[PickleballAce]

Imagine getting fat on that....cuisine.

[pvw1075]

This is what you get, Britain. This is what you get when you hide a kid under the stairs and feed everything to the other one!

You win. Next thing you know they'll be floating away.

[shaunika123]

poor jamie oliver rolling in his not yet dug grave

[Fluttershy]

Imagine getting fat on that....cuisine.

The british diet is usually
Shitty piss water they call beer or lager or cider or whatever who cares its worse than trash
Shitloads of potato chips and full calorie sodas
Frozen pizzas that you microwave (dunno what kind of demented individual thought up of this idea, they do this every single fucking day during lunch)
Kebab using fake meat from your local friendly asian stall (luckily all the alcohol from above and a lifetime of eating literal trash called the english cuisine has dulled their senses)
a tiny tiny piece of meat with an entire plateful of oil soaked thick cut fries
Lots and lots of desserts and cakes

I'm surprised a country with really good base ingredients can somehow twist it into that monstrosity, though ill admit for bodybuilders/physically active people the english breakfast is actually hearty and delicious, except for the fried bread, only a true fatfuck of the worst kind would literally eat bread intentionally soaked in oil and has literally no taste outside of canola oil(and like 500 calories for a tiny slice).

Also I am quite fond of rice pudding, sticky toffee and bread and budder puddings, granted I eat that maybe once every year because of the insane calories. Also the english have absolutely no clue on how to make a cake or cheesecake.

[burek]

congratulations to both

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Sure UK have a obease problam but the author is deceitful, look UK Childern at age 11 is used but US children at aged 9 to 11 are used..... Hence give US a "advantage" becuse there are fewer obease 9 and 10 year olds then 11 years old....

Nor what parameters UK and US use to call a person obease.

[Kapadons]

Come on America. We can do better! Let’s get this title back!

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Trump just announced a new initiative to fatten up the 11 year olds in the United States:

It’s sad I know that’s a fake tweet but could absolutely believe that’s some shit trump would post.

[beedeehee]

So now they have awful teeth AND they're fat!

Oh what's that? You gonna cry and stuff your face in crumpets?!?

[Deleted]

Anyone seen that Jamie Oliver series in which he tried to get kids to eat healthier lunches at school?

It became very clear to me that the parents were absolutely NOT willing to put in even the slightest effort to cook healthy at home. It was not a money issue, it was about EFFORT. They even got angry at Jamie at some point and you could just see the desperation in his eyes.

Of course this is mainly a lower class issue, as you could also see in that series. Many of these people were fat, pale, dark around the eyes, chain smokers etc. These problems are basically inherited and it will take a miracle to break the cycle.

[therealstegblob]

Anyone seen that Jamie Oliver series in which he tried to get kids to eat healthier lunches at school?

It became very clear to me that the parents were absolutely NOT willing to put in even the slightest effort to cook healthy at home. It was not a money issue, it was about EFFORT. They even got angry at Jamie at some point and you could just see the desperation in his eyes.

Of course this is mainly a lower class issue, as you could also see in that series. Many of these people were fat, pale, dark around the eyes, chain smokers etc. These problems are basically inherited and it will take a miracle to break the cycle.

The Jamie Oliver series was fucking stupid, though. He went about doing literally everything all wrong, including trying to scare kids into thinking chicken nuggets were gross. The guy is a doorknob.

Eating healthy is a cost and effort issue that not a lot of people can deal with. It's a very huge and existential kind of problem so I don't necessarily blame people for failing to eat, and feed their children, healthy, but it's not an excuse for their failures.

[TJ]

The british diet is usually
Shitty piss water they call beer or lager or cider or whatever who cares its worse than trash
Shitloads of potato chips and full calorie sodas
Frozen pizzas that you microwave (dunno what kind of demented individual thought up of this idea, they do this every single fucking day during lunch)
Kebab using fake meat from your local friendly asian stall (luckily all the alcohol from above and a lifetime of eating literal trash called the english cuisine has dulled their senses)
a tiny tiny piece of meat with an entire plateful of oil soaked thick cut fries
Lots and lots of desserts and cakes

I'm surprised a country with really good base ingredients can somehow twist it into that monstrosity, though ill admit for bodybuilders/physically active people the english breakfast is actually hearty and delicious, except for the fried bread, only a true fatfuck of the worst kind would literally eat bread intentionally soaked in oil and has literally no taste outside of canola oil(and like 500 calories for a tiny slice).

Also I am quite fond of rice pudding, sticky toffee and bread and budder puddings, granted I eat that maybe once every year because of the insane calories. Also the english have absolutely no clue on how to make a cake or cheesecake.

It's not just that, it's all the fast food and takeaways that people have. They are too lazy to cook and will go to KFC/Mcdonald's all the time instead of as a treat.

Even with that food diet though, the main problem is beer. People down pint after pint after pint without realising that it's the main contributor for their excess calories... Then they wonder why they can't lose weight whilst still drinking regularly. Oh yeah, it's a REAL mystery.

Dunno what you're talking about with cheesecakes, Marks and Spencer's and even some of Tesco's shit all over the garbage I had in America, granted I haven't had any in New York which I assume is where the best is, but still, not a true statement.

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So now they have awful teeth AND they're fat!

Oh what's that? You gonna cry and stuff your face in crumpets?!?

Crumpets are actually delicious, and our teeth are fine thanks since we have free dental care

[Wezmon]

Great article, love this line "In America, the data is gathered by the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. It uses a different benchmark, but the figures show a smaller proportion of children are classified as obese."

Looking it up, it turns out the US uses a percentile to check obesity, whereas the UK uses an outright BMI number. So basically completely incomparable. Good for headlines though.

[LoLcano]

Damn how can u get that fat on shitty foods of UK :)) ?

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Damn how can u get that fat on shitty foods of UK ) ?

Traditional UK food will get you malnourished but not fat, it's the popular American food that fattens them up.

[Independent voter]

Traditional UK food will get you malnourished but not fat, it's the popular American food that fattens them up.

Playing video games and watching YouTube too instead of going outside and running around the neighborhood.

[xindralol]

Trump just announced a new initiative to fatten up the 11 year olds in the United States:

is there really fake trump twitter accounts haha