Survey: 26% of Irish men are obese

MORE than a quarter of Irish men and a fifth of Irish women are obese, the findings of a national survey have revealed.

According to the survey by the Irish Universities Nutrition Alliance at University College Cork and University College Dublin, obesity has increased more than three-fold in men and 1.7-fold in women in the last 20 years.

The study, which documented diet and lifestyle behaviour of 1,500 Irish adults found that almost 26% of men are now obese, up from 8% in 1990.