Primary kids obesity shock - Carlisle News & Star 25th February 2008

A GENERATION of Cumbrian children is facing severe health problems with one in 10 starting school clinically obese. And stark new figures have revealed that by the time they are in Year Six – aged 10 or 11 – that figure will have risen to a worrying 15.5 per cent. Medics say the growing childhood obesity epidemic is one of the biggest problems facing the county, impacting not only on youngsters’ weight, but their mental health and achievements at school.

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