Time to relax and breathe out, Bromley!

Those in the south-east London borough must have been successfully watching their waistlines as new figures reveal the borough is among England's ten "thinnest" regions.

Figures from the Health & Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) pinpoint the number of people in each region who were admitted to hospital with a primary or secondary diagnosis of obesity in 2014/15.

Bromley came in at number seven of the areas with the lowest obesity admissions per 100,000 - at 297.

In the top three for slenderness were Richmond (238), Kingston-upon-Thames (252) and Rutland in the East Midlands (274).

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Wirral in Merseyside was crowned the fattest region, with 2,894 admissions per 100,000.

But obesity is still not an issue to be taken lightly.

In 2014, 58% of women and 65% of men in England were overweight or obese, the figures show.

HSCIC said obesity prevalence has increased from 15% in 1993 to 26% in 2014.