One in five Jersey adults classified 'obese' - new stats

Thursday 17 November 2022

Around one in three adults in Jersey are overweight and roughly one in five are obese, according to new data released by the Government today.

The information featured in a report by the Public Health team, whose key findings were:

• "around half of adults in Jersey self-reported as "normal weight" (47%), while one third (32%) were overweight, and 18% were obese;

• around one in four (22%) people had a waist measurement resulting in a very high cardio-vascular risk factor;

• at year end 2021, there were 9,380 adults on the GP obesity register;

• amongst children, one in four Reception-aged children were overweight or obese and one in three Year 6 were overweight;

• in 2021, over two thirds (69%) of adults in Jersey had eaten less than the recommended five portions of fruit and vegetables per day;

• the proportion of young people who ate 5 portions of fruit and vegetables decreased with age - from 38% in Year 4 to just 18% in Year 12;

• around half (52%) of adults in Jersey reported meeting the recommended guidelines for physical activity; and

• around four out of five young people were not meeting the UK NHS recommended levels for physical activity."

More analysis to follow in Saturday's JEP...

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