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(Childhood Obesity News) 2008/09/29 - Childhood obesity 'more widespread' than parents think - Kiddicare

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The Department of Health has highlighted that media perceptions are misleading parents’ understanding of childhood obesity. He added that modern changes to family routine, such as not sitting down to dinner at the table together, is a contributing factor to the growing rate of childhood obesity in the UK. Recent research conducted by Datamonitor showed that European children consume 17 per cent more confectionery than the population average (9. According to the Health Survey for England, in 2006, 16 per cent of children aged between two and 15 were classed as obese. These are not necessarily the views of kiddicare. Read Childhood Obesity

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