Hi Michael here aka The Peoples health ~Coach helping others improve their health naturally for over 30 years.
- 63.8% of adults aged 18 and are overweight or living with obesity in the UK today.
- Nearly 30 million adults in the UK are overweight or obese.
- Being overweight or obese is the main modifiable risk factor for type 2 diabetes.
- In England, obese adults are five times more likely to be diagnosed with diabetes than adults of a healthy weight.
- Currently 90% of adults with type 2 diabetes are overweight or obese. People with severe obesity are at greater risk of type 2 diabetes than obese people with a lower BMI
- There is a close association between obesity and type 2 diabetes. The likelihood and severity of type 2 diabetes are closely linked with body mass index (BMI).
- There is a seven times greater risk of diabetes in obese people compared to those of healthy weight, with a threefold increase in risk for overweight people.
- Since 1996, the number of people diagnosed with diabetes in the UK has risen from 1.4 million to 3.9 million.
- Taking into account the number of people likely to be living with undiagnosed diabetes, the number of people living with diabetes in the UK is over 4.8 million
- Diabetes prevalence in the UK is estimated to rise to 5.3 million by 2025.
- Type 2 diabetes in particular has been growing at the particularly high rate and is now one of the world’s most common long term health conditions.
