Nine in ten Brits at risk of turning into fictional TV character Wayne Slob due to ‘poor lifestyles’

NINE in ten of the country’s adults risk an early death due to their unhealthy lifestyles, a damning report reveals.

They either eat poorly, drink too much, do no exercise or smoke.

It paints a grim picture of a population turning into comedian Harry Enfield’s fictional TV characters Wayne and Waynetta Slob.

Record numbers are now dangerously fat, with one in 20 women in England morbidly obese - five times as many than in the early 1990s.

The NHS analysis of the state of the nation’s health shows 87 per cent of adults had at least one of the deadly habits in 2017 — and over half had at least two.

Not eating five portions of fruit and veg a day was by far the most common.

World Cancer Research Fund senior scientist Susannah Brown said: “Unhealthy choices increase the likelihood of developing cancer, so it is worrying to see over half of adults have two or more of these risk factors, especially as we know around 40 per cent of cancer cases are preventable.”

Rates of diabetes have more than doubled in three decades — and have tripled in OAPs.

One in three children in England is now too heavy, raising the future risk of diabetes, heart disease and cancer.

Two in three adults are too fat, with obese mums three-and-a-half times more likely to have tubby kids.

Around 8,000 adults and 2,000 kids were polled for the latest Health Survey for England.

Tam Fry, of the National Obesity Forum, said: “This survey simply confirms our continuing failure to monitor the body mass index of parents at booking-in for maternity care and flagging up the prospect of their child also becoming obese months before it is born.

“With this kind of warning, it must surely be possible for the health service to ensure that weight interventions for the infant are already in place.”

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