People need to eat better, be more active, stop smoking and consider their drinking. People are being urged to take a moment to consider their health and the simple steps they can take to improve it in the run up to the New Year, by taking the One You online quiz. Ninety per cent of adults with diabetes have Type 24.
Obese adults are more than 5 times more likely to develop Type 2 diabetes than those who are a healthy weight (a body mass index between 18.5 and 25). The diabetes rate among this age group also doubled in this period in England. Many also can’t identify what a ‘healthy’ body looks like, suggesting obesity has become the new normal. Obesity in adults has shot up 16% in the last 20 years. Modern life is harming the health of the nation: 77% of men and 63% of women in middle age are overweight or obese. PHE’s One You campaign is reaching out to the 83% of 40 to 60 year olds (87% of men and 79% of women) who are either overweight or obese, exceed the Chief Medical Officer’s (CMO) alcohol guidelines or are physically inactive, to provide free support and tools to help them live more healthily in 2017 and beyond. Eight out of 10 of the middle aged either weigh too much, drink too much or don’t exercise enough, as new analysis from Public Health England ( PHE) out today (28 December 2016) shows modern life taking its toll on health.
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