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One in Ten 5 year-olds Obese

Posted on Friday, 04 December 2009 05:25PM by
The Department of Health has reported that one in 10 children in the United Kingdom is clinically obese by the age of five.  This rises to one in five by the age of 11, and throughout the country as a whole 17% of children are believed to be so overweight that they are putting their health at risk.

In low-income families rates of obesity are higher still, with as many as one in six children already obese when they start primary school.

There is a great deal of literature now confirming that the first year of life is absolutely critical - and that fat children are in danger of staying fat for the rest of their lives.  A huge number of women are going into pregnancy overweight and increasing the risks that their babies will also be obese.

A recent study showed that 70% of parents who have obese children underestimate both the degree to which their children are overweight, and the scale of the health risk that this poses.  Childhood obesity increases the risk of cancer, diabetes and heart disease later in life.  In the first half year of life babies are naturally plump, but after that, they should be starting to grow into their weight.  Doctors have traditionally been trained to think that a huge bonny baby is a good thing, but that's now believed to be extremely bad advice.


(Source: Natural News.com; Daily Mail)
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