Twice as many obese children
Wednesday, January 10, 2001
The number of overweight children in England and Scotland has almost doubled in recent years, a survey has found. The proportion of children classed as overweight or obese rose between the mid-1980s and mid-1990s. A study in the British Medical Journal last week looked at thousands of children aged between four and 11, and compared their measurements to those of children taken in 1974, 1984 and 1994.
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