Title: The truth about obesity: 10 shocking things you need to know | Life and style | The Guardian
Headings: The truth about obesity: 10 shocking things you need to know
Health & wellbeing
The truth about obesity: 10 shocking things you need to know
Sarah Boseley
1. Nearly two-thirds of the UK population is either overweight or obese
2. Obesity is shortening our lives
3. Obesity could bankrupt the NHS
4. It's an unfair fight
5. Obesity took off in the have-it-all 80s
6. Snacking is "a newly created behaviour"
7. The food industry is behaving as the tobacco industry did
8. Your brain, not your stomach, tells you when to stop eating
9. By the age of five, it is almost too late to intervene
10. Obese children are increasingly being taken into care

Content: Within a few decades, that is predicted to climb to £15bn. Type 2 diabetes is a huge problem: 10% of the NHS budget already goes on that alone. Being overweight is the chief cause and the numbers are soaring, from 1.4 million in 1996 to more than three million today, with a predicted rise to five million by 2025. A study this month revealed that one-third of the population is on the verge of type 2 diabetes, having high blood glucose levels classified as prediabetes. " If this increase in prediabetes and diabetes isn't tackled now, it will destroy the health service," said Barbara Young, chief executive of Diabetes UK. " Many of the problems the secretary of state is trying to tackle, such as too many people coming in as emergencies to hospitals, are about the one in six people in any hospital at any time who've got diabetes. So it's a massive impact on the NHS and it's going to get even bigger." Type 2 diabetes is costly in every sense – apart from complications such as blindness and amputation, it makes you five times more likely to have a heart attack or stroke. The food industry encourages us to buy fattening foods.