“Nearly a quarter of all children are overweight or obese by the age of three, it was revealed yesterday. Nearly a fifth of toddlers – 18 per cent – are heavier than they should be and 5 per cent are clinically obese“

(Via the Mail online | Health A quarter of toddlers are overweight: .)

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“OBESITY in children under 12 should be considered parental neglect, a doctor claims.”

(Via Scotsman.com News – Health Prosecute parents of obese children for neglect, says doctor: .)

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“Britain is fat. We know that. Chefs and doctors, footballers and even pop stars tell us over and over again, in campaigns against the obesity epidemic. But now, as The Independent on Sunday reveals, new data show that an alarming number of Britons actually suffer from malnutrition.”

(Via UK We are eating ourselves ill: Treating malnutrition [...]

“Excess exposure to TV is linked to sleep and behavioural problems as well as obesity“

(Via 24dash – All News ‘Ration children’s TV’ to cut health and learning problems: .)

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“Teenage girls who drop out of school PE lessons could get free beauty treatments as a reward for taking part in exercise programmes. Vouchers for treatments could be handed out to unfit girls as an incentive for them taking part in a lottery-funded fitness scheme“

(Via the Mail online | Home Girls bribed with beauty treatments [...]

“THE scale of the obesity epidemic was underlined yesterday with the revelation that Scotland’s newest crematorium has invested in a super-sized cremator.”

(Via Scotsman.com News – Health Super-size me ??? even after my death: .)

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