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Milly Jones
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« on: 14:58:50, 03-09-2008 »
According to a new study done in Sweden, there are hot spots of obesity in Britain.  Little pockets of fatties?  Grin  Anyway, they've come up with this :-

Here are the top twenty 'fattest' places in the UK:

1. Shetland 2. Torfaen 3. Blaenau Gwent 4. Neath 5. Caerphilly 6. Rhondda 7. Barnsley 8. Wrexham 9. North Lincolnshire 10. Merthyr Tydfil 11. Denbighshire 12. Doncaster 13. Carmarthenshire 14. Stoke-On-Trent 15. Wolverhampton City 16. Anglesey 17. Blackpool 18. Knowsley 19. Newport 20. Northumberland Care Trust

And here are the top twenty 'slimmest' places:

1. Camden 2. Richmond & Twickenham 3. Wandsworth 4. Kensington & Chelsea 5. Westminster 6. Hammersmith & Fulham 7. Brighton & Hove 8. Surrey 9. Kingston 10. Tower Hamlets 11.Lambeth 12. Bristol 13. Bath & North East Somerset 14. Lothian 15. Buckinghamshire 16. Barnet 17. Islington 18. West Hertfordshire 19. Bromley 20. West Sussex

So now we know where to move to when on a diet.  Tongue
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« Reply #1 on: 15:10:49, 03-09-2008 »
Bloomin' 'eck, Mills; perhaps should we start spelling Wales with an 'h'?   Shocked
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« Reply #2 on: 15:23:39, 03-09-2008 »
Quote from: Milly Jones on 14:58:50, 03-09-2008
9. North Lincolnshire
That doesn't surprise me at all.  The first thing that struck my other half when he first came to Lincoln was how many people are eating chips in the city centre on Saturdays.  There's an aisle in Morrisons devoted to "Pies. Cheese." which I felt rather summed it up.

I was randomly speculating the other day whether hilly places have slimmer people.  This was while hyperventilating around Bradford centre after a trip to the Media museum and noticing that everyone was thin.

London is an exception to that of course - people in London are thin because they walk so fast and nobody has time to eat.   Wink Cheesy

At a very average size 12, I feel enormous in Kensington and like Kate Moss in parts of Lincoln (that's unfair, we still have some size zero teenagers...)
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« Reply #3 on: 15:34:05, 03-09-2008 »
Quote from: Ruby2 on 15:23:39, 03-09-2008
There's an aisle in Morrisons devoted to "Pies. Cheese." which I felt rather summed it up.

I was irresistibly reminded of this.
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« Reply #4 on: 15:40:23, 03-09-2008 »
south kensington has all sorts
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« Reply #5 on: 15:45:06, 03-09-2008 »
Quote from: Milly Jones on 14:58:50, 03-09-2008
20. Northumberland Care Trust

That's a bit specific isn't it?!
Do you think that it means the whole county or just people in hospitals/doctor's waiting rooms/care homes etc.?
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« Reply #6 on: 15:47:11, 03-09-2008 »
Quote from: Ruby2 on 15:23:39, 03-09-2008
I was randomly speculating the other day whether hilly places have slimmer people. 

It looks as if W(h)ales rather gives the lie to that one.  Embarrassed
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« Reply #7 on: 15:51:01, 03-09-2008 »
Quote from: Milly Jones on 14:58:50, 03-09-2008
14. Lothian

Which one? All of them?
Presumably this doesn't include Edinburgh during Festival season.
I don't usually say these sort of things but
Quote from: Milly Jones on 14:58:50, 03-09-2008
Little pockets of fatties?
Yes indeed.
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« Reply #8 on: 15:52:05, 03-09-2008 »
Quote from: harmonyharmony on 15:45:06, 03-09-2008
Quote from: Milly Jones on 14:58:50, 03-09-2008
20. Northumberland Care Trust

That's a bit specific isn't it?!
Do you think that it means the whole county or just people in hospitals/doctor's waiting rooms/care homes etc.?

 Cheesy
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« Reply #9 on: 15:53:01, 03-09-2008 »
Quote from: martle on 15:47:11, 03-09-2008
Quote from: Ruby2 on 15:23:39, 03-09-2008
I was randomly speculating the other day whether hilly places have slimmer people. 

It looks as if W(h)ales rather gives the lie to that one.  Embarrassed

Maybe the sheep are slim? All that gambolling around could keep ewe trim, look you.

Ok, just getting me sheepskin ... Roll Eyes
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« Reply #10 on: 15:54:41, 03-09-2008 »
Quote from: martle on 15:47:11, 03-09-2008
Quote from: Ruby2 on 15:23:39, 03-09-2008
I was randomly speculating the other day whether hilly places have slimmer people. 

It looks as if W(h)ales rather gives the lie to that one.  Embarrassed

They have hills but they don't live on them; all their towns are in valleys.

Up here in the North East we embrace our hills and build streets that run up and down them  Wink
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« Reply #11 on: 15:56:38, 03-09-2008 »
The thing that leaps out of these lists is the relative affluence of the places in the lists.  The slim list contains mostly affluent places (apart from Tower Hamlets and Lambeth, which, being London boroughs with a significant ethnic mix and pockets of substantial affluence, may show a skew in the results); the places in the fat list, notably less so, with a lot of former industrial areas with high unemployment. 

Quote from: Milly Jones on 14:58:50, 03-09-2008
And here are the top twenty 'slimmest' places:

... 7. Brighton & Hove

Regular readers of the "What that burning?" thread will know what an abstemious lot we are down here. 
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« Reply #12 on: 16:02:11, 03-09-2008 »
Quote from: perfect wagnerite on 15:56:38, 03-09-2008
Quote from: Milly Jones on 14:58:50, 03-09-2008
And here are the top twenty 'slimmest' places:

... 7. Brighton & Hove

Regular readers of the "What that burning?" thread will know what an abstemious lot we are down here. 

Indeed, PW. And we also understand appetite supression.
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« Reply #13 on: 16:07:31, 03-09-2008 »
But I am Welsh, 8st. 7lbs. a perfect size 10 but my Welsh Council was not listed!!

Why?  Roll Eyes
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« Reply #14 on: 16:30:32, 03-09-2008 »
And Ruby!!!! Lincoln!  I'll have you know that little Milly was born there just round the corner from the Cathedral up the steepest hill that ever was.   No fatties round there!

(Having said that erm...I'm a five-footer and size 12 when I should only be an 8-10.  Embarrassed (However, I'm working on it! Albeit half-heartedly  Grin)
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