By Roger Dobson
Published: 13 May 2007
Who ate all the pies? People in the West Midlands and the South-west, says research showing where the highest numbers of Britons are obese - in some places over one in three - or overweight.
The new research, to be published in theSocial Science and Medicine journal, contrasts the overweight - those with a body mass index (BMI) of 25 to 30 - and the obese, whose BMI is above 30.
Academics at Southampton and Portsmouth universities analysed data on 18,000 people, and worked out a formula for characteristics linked to the risk of obesity for every English council ward. continue...
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