This month, takeaway delivery service Deliveroo announced plans to float on the London Stock Exchange in an IPO worth up to £8 billion ($14 billion) – proof that not only are we eating more takeaways, but now we can’t even be bothered to get off our backsides to go and pick them up.
According to NHS Digital, 63 per cent of adults in England are now overweight or obese while 3 per cent fall into the morbidly obese category.
