About this episode

Matt Cooper discusses the obesity rates among Irish adults with Professor Donal O’Shea.

22% of Irish adults are considered obses according to new figure from the European Commission. HSE National Clinical Lead for Obesity Professor Donal O’Shea joins Matt to discuss what these figures mean Hit Play on this page to listen now

People in this episode

Host: Matt Cooper

Guest: Professor Donal O’Shea

Topics covered

• obesity
• health statistics
• Irish adults
• public health
• HSE
• European Commission

Keywords

• obesity
• Irish adults
• health
• HSE
• European Commission
• statistics
• public health

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Organizations: HSE, European Commission

Places: Ireland

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