"This absolutely horrendous rise shows what happens as yesterday's adolescents bring their bad habits -- junk food, lack of exercise, binge drinking -- into adulthood," said Tam Fry of the National Obesity Forum.
Norman Lamb, a Liberal Democrat health spokesperson called the statistics "utterly shocking" and expressed concern about medical costs.
"The pattern among young people is particularly alarming," he said, "because of what it shows about the problems ahead, not just for the individuals involved, but for the National Health Service, which will be bankrupted because of obesity, unless there is drastic action."
The quotes and other information in this post originally appeared in an Aug. 22 article by Laura Donnelly of the British newspaper The Telegraph.
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