Right now, the United Kingdom has a high rate of obesity across its population.

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The United Kingdom currently has a high prevalence of obesity (the exact obesity prevalence percentage, the population subgroup, and the threshold used to define 'high' are not specified in the claim; absolute prevalence is therefore not reported).

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Moderate

1 study

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One moderate-quality study links this claim to the outcome, but causation is not established.

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1 study reviewed

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Moderate

Whole-population trends in obesity across dimensions of inequality in England, 2019-25: a retrospective, longitudinal cohort study of 54 million adults.
Cohort StudyHuman
The study looked at millions of adults in England and found that about 30 out of every 100 had obesity by 2025. Since England is a major part of the UK, this supports the idea that the UK has high obesity rates.

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