British women top European obesity scales

BRITISH women and Maltese men topped European obesity ratings according to data that also undermined the belief that all French women are thin.

The figures released by the EU’s statistics agency showed the proportion of obese adults ranging from 8% to 23.9% for women and 7.6% to 24.7% for men.

Though a worry for public health, the rates are well below those in the US, where the corresponding figure was 28.8% for women and 27.6% for men in 2009, Eurostat said.