The bar chart indicates the results of the survey which is conducted by the

Department of Health about the overweight population in Britain, with three

categories: obese people (people aged 16+), obese children (children aged 2-15)
and obese children in different household types in the UK in 2003 and 2010.

To begin with, the most striking feature of the chart is that both of the
numbers of obese children and weight-related people have an upward trend
throughout this period. In terms of the overweight people, there was a
considerable growth in men’s figure, the number of obese men almost doubled
to nearly 7 in 2010. The figure of overweight women showed a similar trend:
Beginning from approximately 5 millions people, this number climbed up to 6
from 2003 to 2010.

Regarding the children who suffer from overweight proplem, a light

increase was projected in the male’s figure. In the other sex, the number of
overweight children markedly went up between 2003 and 2010, from nearly
700.000 to 900.000 , respectively. The one difference is that the people’s figure
is much more than the children’s figure. While the number of obese people was
estimated in millions, overweight children’s number was projected in
thousands.

About the obese children in different household types, it is obvious that

25 percent of children having both of their parents being obese was overweight
- the highest number compared to the remaining figures, while about families
including one parent being obese, over 10 percent of overweight children was
recorded. meanwhile, only 5 percent of overweight children having no parent
being obese - ranked in the lowest position.