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Obesity
Children and Obesity 25 June 2007
Obesity
Can we stop the obesity epidemic?

The body weight of a normal child will be 20% to 25% fat but specialists report that they are now seeing toddlers with up to 50% body fat. Professor Timothy Barrett – a paediatrician who runs a clinic for children with diabetes at Birmingham’s Children’s Hospital - is currently treating obese children under the age of four.Ìý Dietician Laura Stewart – who runs the Children’s Weight Clinic in Edinburgh - blames poor diet andÌýa lack of exercise for the growing numbers of obese children. She and Professor Barrett joinÌýJane LittleÌýto discuss an epidemic that threatens to make a fifth of our children obese by 2010.

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