The following information is from a series of special reports in the Sheffield Star in February 2012. Read it carefully and work out what goes in the gaps.

One in five eleven year olds in Sheffield are obese. This is the same as percent.
NHS National Child Measurement Programme figures show more than 1,000 Sheffield 11-year-olds and 500 four and five-year-olds are obese.

Approximately how many 11 year olds are in Sheffield?

Figures also show that, although Barnsley’s obesity rates have generally decreased over the past three years, Rotherham has the highest proportion of obese 11-year-olds in South Yorkshire.

The total cost of obesity to the NHS in Sheffield is more than £150 million a year - and could be as high as £165m by 2015. Can you write £150 million in figures?

If lifestyle changes are not made by those at risk, it is estimated obesity will cost the country £50 billion a year by 2050.

In an attempt to help tackle fat Britain, the Government helped to set up Change4Life, a national movement aimed to help us ‘eat well, move more and live longer’.

Cycling, swimming, healthy eating, walking to school, engaging in sport, growing and cooking your own vegetables, encouraging breast-feeding and increasing school meal uptake were all part of the multi-agency approach to our weight problem.

The initiative’s founding document said success would be ‘measured by a reduction in overweight and obese children by 2014’.


But if recent trends continue there will be 1,290 obese 11-year-olds and another 100 obese four to five-year-olds in our schools by the end of that year.
What is 1,290 rounded to the nearest thousand?

Sheffield is actually doing better than a lot of other cities in fighting fat. But the city’s situation is still worse than it was last year or three years ago when Change4Life began.

Sheffield put £5 million into the campaign in the city, and the Government’s Healthy Communities Campaign put in another £5m. How much is this altogether?

Yet three years later the bottom line shows we are worse off than when we started.

Obesity is responsible for:

- 58 per cent of type two diabetes

- 21 per cent of heart disease

- 10 per cent of non-smoking related cancers

- 9,000 premature deaths a year in England

- A reduction of life expectancy by 9 to 11 years.

Life expectancy in Sheffield is currently 79 for men and 82 for women. If a man is obese what is his life expectancy? to
If a woman is obese what is her life expectancy? to
Kath Sharman is managing director of the SHINE Health Academy, a Sheffield-based charity that helps children with serious weight issues. She said

“If you think the National Child Measurement Programme stats are shocking for 11-year-olds, we found a 41 per cent obesity rate for 12 to 13-year-olds in a small study of eight Sheffield schools that reflected affluent areas as well as disadvantaged.

“We did our survey last year between April and September and found the results quite shocking.

“People are often offended to be told their children are overweight or obese."