Feb

24

Topic: Childhood Obesity News - Obesity rates start badly and get worse at primary school - Guardian Unlimited

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Nearly one in four children starting primary school are either overweight or obese, according to government figures which also show that by the time they leave aged 11 the proportion has risen to one in three. The scale of the epidemic is made clear by yesterday’s release of the latest results of the National Child Measurement Programme, which showed that 22. The programme was launched in 2005 with the aim of weighing and measuring every child on arrival in the reception year and again in year 6, the last year of primary school. The Liberal Democrat health spokesman, Norman Lamb, said it was a stark wake-up call to see that more than a quarter of children were overweight before they even started secondary school. Read Childhood Obesity

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