Obesity is increasingly putting pressure on family health
People trying to improve their family health should be aware of obesity, according to one expert, who said not enough people realise they are actually clinically obese.
Dr Dean Marshall, chairman of the British Medical Association's (BMA) Scottish General Practitioner's Committee, said that over the last few years the numbers of obese people in the UK have soared.
He said: "One of the big issues is the way a lot of people consider weight - they know they're overweight but they don't see themselves as obese."
The expert added that some people who are clinically obese but do not realise it fail to identify with news stories about the weight problem in the UK.
Researchers from the University of Oxford have found that underlying-cause mortality identified 25 per cent of all deaths in England as having obesity as a certified cause, but because it is often not recorded as a cause the actual figure could be much higher.
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Date Posted: 24/02/2010
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