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Child's play: curtailing a health crisis

The Naked Scientists Podcast

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Childhood Obesity

The u k. National child measurement programme released some data which showed that we have seen the highest annual rise in childhood obesity rates in the last decade. By the time a child starts primary school, nearly 28 % of children already have obesity overweight. So why are we seeing this inexorable and now accelerating rate of childhood obeasty ind such young kids?

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