Carrying excess weight as an adult puts more pressure on your body, your family and your community; it’s reckoned obesity was a factor in over 700,0001 hospital admissions in 2017/18, costing the NHS billions of pounds.
Being overweight is the second largest preventable cause of cancer after smoking, having been directly linked to an increased risk of 13 different cancers2.
It is also linked to other health conditions, and raises the risks from COVID-19.
If you’d like to do something about your weight, check out the NHS Better Health programme which includes a free app to help you get started on a regime that suits you.