Counting calories
A new study suggests people have been fibbing about how much they eat
THE English are fat and getting fatter. The scales of the average adult clocked 77.5kg (171lb) in 2014, an increase since 1993 of 5.1kg—about the weight of a border terrier. Over the period the share of adults classed as obese rose from 14.9% to 25.6%, about twice the rate in France and Sweden.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Counting calories”
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