Obesity on TV

Wednesday, May 12, 2004

Channel Four television is making a sensitive documentary series focusing on children struggling with their weight and would love to hear from parents with lively children. One in seven 15-year-olds and one in every 12 six-year-olds in the UK is now defined as obese. If current trends continue, 20 per cent of boys and 33 per cent of girls will be obese by 2020. An unprecedented number of toddlers are among those getting bigger in the UK and fewer are failing to lose their pre-school chubbiness.