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Childhood Obesity News - 'How letting go helped my boy beat obesity' - Irish Independent

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In a recent national survey of more than 19,000 school-age children, one in four were either overweight or obese, leading survey authors to conclude that the figures “confirm the emergence of the obesity epidemic among children in Ireland”. We took to him to all the clubs — hurling, football, soccer — but as the token fat kid on the team, he wasn’t very good and he hated going. With Sam constantly scratching around in the kitchen, we had thought about chaining up the kitchen door, but the psychologist told us we needed to help Sam live normally and do it for himself. Sometimes he buys chips from the chipper and eats them from the wrapper and I have to bite my tongue, and it appears to be working. But now he is far happier and fitter and at the end of the day those are the two most important things for any man, woman or child to be. Read Childhood Obesity

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