February 26, 2008
Britain's Childhood Obesity Crisis
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The scale of Britain's childhood obesity crisis was revealed as a quarter (23 per cent) of four to five year-olds and almost a third (31 per cent) of 10-year-olds are overweight and obese.The data comes from a voluntary weighing scheme in primary schools in which more than 800,000 children were weighed. The information was released by the NHS Information Centre from the National Child Measurement Programme.
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