By Science Correspondent For The Daily Mail
Published: 00:13 BST, 1 May 2019 | Updated: 00:14 BST, 1 May 2019
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Halting Britain's obesity epidemic could save almost 10,000 lives in the next decade.
Premature deaths could be cut by 7 per cent by 2030 if the number who are overweight falls. Obesity is the second biggest killer in Europe after smoking. It causes the four major non-infectious diseases – cardiovascular disease, cancer, chronic respiratory disease and diabetes.
These conditions will kill 127,645 people between now and 2030, it is forecast, at an age younger than they should die.
But 9,411 people aged 30 to 70 could be saved if Britain's annual rise in obesity was halted. If Britain eradicated obesity altogether, more than 40,000 premature deaths would be prevented.
