Wokingham, Reading and West Berkshire has been named as some of England's healthiest towns.

Figures showed the areas across the country with the highest and lowest rates of obesity-related hospital admissions per 100,000 people.

Wokingham has the lowest rate with 413 cases, followed by West Berkshire with 466.

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In third place was Reading, which saw 588 obesity-related hospital admission per 100,00 people.

Bracknell Forest placed itself on the unhealthier spectrum with 793 admissions.

The figures are published by NHS England and included data gathered between April 1 2018 and March 31 2019.

Slough had one of the highest rates appearing in the top 10 of one of Britain's unhealthiest towns.

The town scored the highest in the south east with 2857 obesity-related hospital admissions per 100,000 people.

Windsor and Maidenhead scored second highest with 1,678 cases.

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The average rate for England as a whole was 1,615.

A person is considered obese if they have a body mass index (BMI) - a measure of a person's weight given their height - of more than 30.

An estimated 26 percent of adults in England are obese, while around 63 percent are either obese or overweight, meaning they have a BMI of over 25.

The issue has received renewed attention since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, with obesity one of a number of risk factors for people who catch the virus.

A Public Health England report in July found that people who are overweight are at least three times as likely to die from the virus as people of a regular weight.

They are also seven times as likely to require ventilation.