NHS figures reveal ever-growing obesity trend reversed last year

NHS figures reveal ever-growing obesity trend reversed last year Childhood obesity levels have dropped back in line with pre-Covid trends, official data suggested.

Over one in five youngsters (22.9 per cent) who started school in September 2021 were overweight or obese in England.

This was down from nearly three in 10 (27.7 per cent) the year before, which was an 'unprecedented' rise and blamed on the knock-on effects of closing schools. The Daily Mail