Weight Loss Supplement Reveals UK Data
Obese people in the north east town of Stockton on Tees are less likely to pop diet pills than anywhere else in the UK – data released today has revealed.
With more Britons then ever before turning to pills to help them lose weight the UK’s first ever weight loss supplement league table has just been published.
The table – reflecting the UK sales of leading organic weight loss supplement Proactol – reveals that dieters across the length and breadth of Britain are seeking help to shed the pounds.
Perhaps unsurprisingly the UK’s largest cities make up the top of the table with more Londoners turning to Proactol for help than anywhere else in Britain. Dieters in Manchester and Birmingham are also buying Proactol in bulk while Scotland’s largest city Glasgow comes fourth in the table ahead of Sheffield in fifth place.
Perhaps the biggest surprise comes at the foot of the table – with Stockton on Tees being revealed as having fewer Proactol customers than anywhere else in the country - data which flies in the face of the stereotypical fish and chip loving Teesider image.
Entrepreneur and star of TV’s Dragon’s Den Duncan Bannatyne made his first fortune selling ice cream in Stockton – but it seems his former customers still aren’t seeking help to lose weight.
Cornish pasty munching Penzance also fares well in the table and ice cream loving Scarborough also features in the ten places with fewer Proactol customers than anywhere else in the UK.
And Wales seems to have less of an obesity problem than England, Scotland or Northern Ireland according to the data – with four Welsh places in the ten UK wide locations with the fewest Proactol customers.
Proactol product manager Katie Downing-Howitt said the company advocated a healthy lifestyle as a strategy for weight loss.
She said: “Our sales have risen steadily over the past couple of years as more and more people acknowledge they need some help to shift their excess weight.
“The majority of our customers do come from Britain’s largest cities and there is a pretty even spread across the whole of the UK.
“But I was surprised to see so many Welsh towns in our bottom ten as I have seen research which said Wales had a real obesity problem. If I’m honest I wasn’t expecting Stockton on Tees to have fewer customers than anywhere else. Where are all Stockton’s obese people? It’s a mystery.”
She added that Melton Mowbray was a further surprise. The Leicestershire town famous for its pork pies had a low number of Proactol customers and narrowly missed out on a place in the product’s bottom ten. For more information please visit www.Proactol.co.uk
The league table top 20:
1. London
2. Manchester
3. Birmingham
4. Glasgow
5. Sheffield
6. Edinburgh
7. Bristol
8. Leeds
9. Belfast
10. Nottingham
11. Coventry
12. Liverpool
13. Cardiff
14. Newcastle upon Tyne
15. Southampton
16. Leicester
17. Milton Keynes
18. Hull
19 Oxford
20. Bolton
And the ten locations with the fewest Proactol customers:
1. Stockton-on-Tees
2. Ludlow
3. Flint
4. Workington
5. Wrexham
6. Nantwich
7. Caernarfon
8. Penzance
9. Scarborough
10 Brecon
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