Childhood Obesity

What can be done?

Everybody is talking about a childhood obesity epidemic. Although this is now a problem in many countries, the situation here in the UK is very serious. The number of children who are obese have doubled in the last twenty years. Many overweight children become overweight adults who will end up with serious health problems.

“There are one million children in the UK who may die prematurely because they are obese.”

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Just how big is the problem?

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