UK is Sickest Nation in Europe

clipped from www.telegraph.co.uk Britain has been branded "the sick man of Europe" after a Government report revealed a nation blighted by record levels of obesity, alcohol abuse, diabetes and smoking related deaths. The rate of obesity in British adults is the worst in Europe and, in some areas, are now above the national average of the United States. "It is shocking that England is still the fattest nation in Europe." almost 900,000 children aged under 11 are obese - a 50 per cent increase in the past decade. The number of women aged 35 to 54 dying of alcohol abuse has almost doubled in the last 15 years.