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Analysis: Obesity strategy targets children
Nursery World,
31 October 2007
Current levels of childhood obesity could lead to the first cut in life expectancy for 200 years, according to experts, who warn that without direct action, a generation of children will predecease their parents. Mary Evans reports.
Obesity is a crisis on the scale of climate change. Most adults in the UK are overweight and without concerted action we are condemning a generation of children to die before their parents, according to health experts. The warning came at the launch of the Foresight Report - Tackling Obesities: Future Choices, which predicted that by 2050, 60 per cent of adult men,...
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