Fat chance!

By Jonathan Doherty and Mary Whiting, Nursery World, 1 April 2004

What today's unhealthy lifestyles are doing to children is outlined by Jonathan Doherty and Mary Whiting. Over the past 20 years the levels of obesity in children and adults in this country have escalated. It is now estimated that one in three children are overweight and one in five are obese. One child in ten is obese by the time they start school.

What today's unhealthy lifestyles are doing to children is outlined by Jonathan Doherty and Mary Whiting. Over the past 20 years the levels of obesity in children and adults in this country have escalated. It is now...

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