How fat is your child? - The Times 29th September 2007

It’s getting harder to tell, as the latest research from obesity experts shows. “What do you mean my child’s fat?” When you have always regarded your child as simply cuddly, little different from most of his or her peers at school, it’s a bolt from the blue to be confronted with the fact that they’re overweight. But that’s what may soon be happening to many of us – and not just those who frequent fast food outlets – as a new scheme to routinely weigh and measure schoolchildren rolls into its third year.

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