Friday 6 October 2017

Child obesity is a 'national emergency'. So what is Jeremy Hunt doing about it?

Child obesity is a 'national emergency'. So what is Jeremy Hunt doing about it? At the Conservative party conference, the health secretary wore a lanyard advertising Tate & Lyle, which manufactures sugar – a leading cause of obesity

Obesity was a factor in more than 525,000 hospital admissions last year, and obesity rates have risen from 15% in 1993 to 27% in 2015.

Child health experts describe the level of childhood obesity in the United Kingdom as a “state of emergency”Continue reading... The Guardian

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