Tuesday 5 December 2017

More than one in four nurses are obese, new study shows 

More than one in four nurses are obese, new study shows More than a quarter of NHS nurses are obese, with healthcare professionals more likely to be dangerously fat than those they care for, new research suggests.

Experts said the findings were “deeply worrying” and said patients would find it hard to stomach health advice from those whose weight was not healthy.

The research by London South Bank University and Edinburgh Napier University set out to assess obesity prevalence among healthcare professionals working in England.

It found that 25.1 per cent of nurses were obese, with a Body Mass Index (BMI) score of more than 30, compared with rates of 23.5 per cent in the general population. The Daily Telegraph

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