A new briefing paper by the Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS) at the UCL Social Research Institute, shows that obesity rates in teenagers from the poorest families are twice as high as those from richer households - 28 per cent vs 14 per cent.
Over all, one in five (21 per cent) of young people were obese at age 17, and a further one in seven (14 per cent) were overweight, the study finds, based on data collected in 2018-19.
The research analysed data collected from a nationally representative group of more than 10,000 teenagers who have been taking part in the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) since they were born in 2000-02.
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