Children's Health & Fitness ? Preventing Childhood Obesity ? From ...

July 5th, 2012 by Len Saunders

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It?s the epidemic that appears to have Britain in its grip ? obesity.

From horrifying stats that suggest half of us will be clinically obese within 20 years, to research that shows one third of all UK children are already overweight or obese by the time they leave primary school, every week seems to throw up another scare story about our national weight problem.

And the stark facts don?t lie: the number of overweight or obese children is increasing year-on-year in Britain. There are currently one million obese children under the age of 16.

?Puppy fat?, you say? But the truth is as many as 70 per cent of those kids will grow up to become obese adults.

If we continue as we are, 90 per cent of today?s children could be overweight or obese by 2050.

As leading UK obesity prevention organisation MEND points out, the consequences for our health ? and our children?s ? will be grave: ?Children and adults who are above a healthy weight are much more likely to develop chronic diseases.?

These include heart and blood disease, some cancers, osteoarthritis, fatty liver, Type 2 diabetes, infertility, asthma and high blood pressure ? which can lead to stroke.

Meanwhile, experts suggest that overweight children will tend to have poorer body image, leaving them susceptible to eating disorders in later life.

The reason for the increase in obesity is complex, but societal changes in the way we eat, what we eat and how active we are conspire to produce the problem. It doesn?t help that there is confusing information out there about what foods are healthy and what aren?t ? such as so-called ?low fat? products, which can be high in sugar.

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