Childhood Obesity on the Rise

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Tuesday, 25 April 2006

Figures from the National Health Survey for 2004, based on 2,000 children, show that more than a quarter of children in English secondary schools are clinically obese, almost double the proportion a decade ago. Colin Waine, chairman of the National Obesity Forum, said that the figures showed a "public health timebomb" in the making: He said children who were obese in their early teens were twice as likely to die by age 50.
Source: The Guardian via www.soilassociation.org