The number of obese adults in England has doubled to 14.3million since the UK's first obesity strategy was published in 1992, damning new analysis reveals. Since then, a further 13 national obesity strategies have been published, each of which has failed to stem the crisis, the King's Fund think tank says. The percentage of adults who were either obese or severely obese rose from 15 per cent to 30 per cent from 1993 to 2024, the most recent year available. The King's Fund is now calling for urgent action to address the 'obesity time-bomb' and warns GLP1 fat jabs, such as Mounjaro and Wegovy, are not the 'silver bullet'. It's analysis, shared exclusively with the Daily Mail, reveals the rise in obesity has been 'particularly stark' among young people.