Actual hospital admissions of 15- to 19-year-olds from 2002-05 79 Expected hospital admissions of 15- to 19-year-olds from 2002-05 50
About a quarter of people in Doncaster fall within a lifestyle group of close-knit communities who tend to be people in employment with unsophisticated tastes. Communities like this have had little exposure to students, graduates or the chattering middle classes and so have little concern for diet.
Takeaways are popular, especially fish and chips. Such a diet has a significant effect on obesity levels with a clear link to diabetes - hence the 60 per cent more admissions than would be expected - and, later in life, coronary heart disease and stroke.
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