article_snippet: The news comes as figures from Public Health England show that in Britain, 64 per cent of adults are either overweight or obese.
article_snippet: And experts estimate treating obesity and the associated health problems costs the NHS around £6 billion every year - or five per cent of the entire NHS budget.
article_snippet: It spends a further £10billion on diabetes.
article_snippet: The move is part of several measures to tackle the growing number of Britons who are becoming dangerously overweight.
article_snippet: Simon Stevens, the chief executive of NHS England said: 'The NHS is being pennywise but pound-foolish selling junk food that ultimately just lands more people in hospital with expensive, preventable, obesity-driven illnesses. '
article_snippet: The hospital trust has joined forces with Wolverhampton Council to tackle the obesity crisis locally.
article_snippet: The news comes after the NHS announced last week that 700,000 overweight staff will be told to take part in free slimming classes to shed the pounds, in order to set a better example to 700,000 overweight staff patients.
article_snippet: The drastic scheme could help nearly half of NHS England's 1.3 million workforce, who currently struggle with The drastic scheme weight.
article_snippet: In a drive to 'practice what we preach', the NHS will sign employees up to one of three slimming classes, depending on the amount of weight employees have to lose.
article_snippet: Dr Sally Norton, an NHS consultant specialising in weight loss  surgery, says the NHS is contributing to the obesity crisis .
article_snippet: We frequently hear laments about the cost to the NHS of the epidemic of obesity and type 2 diabetes, which is threatening to engulf us. '