July 11, 2009
Officials in Stockton-on-Tees are trying everything they can think of to beat obesity, which cost local NHS trusts nearly £27 million in 2007
On the front line of Britain’s fight against obesity lies a town with a guilty secret — it has an abiding passion for pork pies.
Stockton-on-Tees eats more of them than anywhere else in the region according to suppliers, who sell off surplus pies to local butchers. Perhaps that’s one reason why the town was named as the country’s capital for childhood obesity in Department of Health figures released this week.
There is significant blip in pie eating figures near to where i live (i say near) :?