Do you live in one of the thinnest boroughs in England? Interactive map exposes the country’s obesity crisis

England’s prettiest boroughs are today revealed by stark figures illustrating the country’s bulging waistline.

Kensington and Chelsea top the table, with the highest proportion of adults not classed as overweight.

But even there, one of the most affluent neighborhoods in the country, 45.8 percent are still considered fat. This is evident from government statistics.

At the other end of the scale, County Durham comes in last, with 77.7 percent of over-18s overweight.

MailOnline has incorporated the complete data from all 296 authorities into an interactive map.

A searchable graph also shows how rates in each area have changed since 2015/2016, when the Department of Health and Social Care started collecting the numbers.

This chart tracks the proportion of the population considered not to be overweight or obese, as defined by their BMI.

As such, the figures may reflect adults who are considered ‘underweight’. Only 1.7 percent of men and women in Britain fall into this category.

Apart from Kensington and Chelsea, six of the other ten thinnest boroughs in the country are in London.

These are: Tower Hamlets (45.9 percent overweight or obese), Westminster (47.9 percent), Haringey (48.5 percent), Wandsworth (49.5 percent), Islington (50.1 percent) and Harrow (52.7 percent).

The three areas outside the capital that made it into the top 10 were Cambridge (50.4 percent), Elmbridge (50.9 percent) and Kingston upon Thames (52.7 percent).

An analysis by MailOnline, which reveals the terrible scale of the obesity crisis, shows that parts of the country have seen a double-digit rise in the proportion of adults considered fat.

In the Wirral, near Liverpool, the proportion of overweight and obese people rose by almost 17 percentage points.

Behind County Durham, if you look the other way, are the Wirral (76.3 percent of adults are overweight), Cannock Chase (76 percent) and Gosport (74.5 percent).

In total, fifty districts are overweight by more than 70 percent.

Tam Fry, chair of the National Obesity Forum, told MailOnline that governments have ‘shied away’ from tackling the problem over the past 25 years.

He said: “There has been strategy after strategy, but none of them have addressed the quality of the strategy cheap and ultra-processed food we eat.

‘Westminster has been captivated by the food industry for years and they are too cowardly to do anything about it.

‘Social inequality plays a major role when it comes to obesity, in terms of living standards and those with higher education are also generally less likely to become obese.

“But as a country we are eating about 20 percent more than we should and that will be reflected in the fact that there is so much obesity.”

Tackling obesity is one of the biggest longer-term health challenges in England.

About two-thirds of adults weigh above what is considered healthy, and about 40 percent of them are obese.

In England, one in three children leaving primary school is overweight.

Ministers are considering giving weight-loss jabs such as Wegovy to unemployed obese people to get them back to work.

Labor’s Health Secretary Wes Streeting has publicly stated that the range of drugs has ‘huge potential’. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has also claimed they will be ‘very helpful’ in the war on benefits.

But Fry added that despite the words of Labour’s senior leadership team, weight loss drugs should be treated with absolute caution.

“Ozempic and Wegovy are real problems and people taking them off the shelf are playing with fire. These medications are for very obese people and should be taken with restrictions, and it will not solve obesity at all.”

It is estimated that obesity costs the NHS around £6.5 billion every year as it is the second largest preventable cause of cancer.

Ozempic and its alternatives such as Wegovy, Saxenda and Mounjaro are known as ‘GLP-1 agonists’.

They work by mimicking the naturally occurring hormone that makes us feel full, reducing the urge to eat.

But due to the recent rise in global popularity, led by celebrity users like billionaire Elon Musk, chat show host Oprah Winfrey and Khloé Kardashian, doctors in Britain have been ordered to crack down on patients who try to safely use the wonder drug. set.