One in 10 children in England is obese by the time of starting primary school, with particular problems in inner cities and poor areas, official statistics show today. In some areas the figure is 1 in 6. A map of health inequalities, produced by the Department of Health, shows that 9.9 per cent of children in their first year of school is obese. The calculation has been determined by body mass index (BMI) measurements taken at school last year.
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