A nutritionist warns that a waist-to-height ratio exceeding 0.5 in children as young as 12 can signal accumulating metabolic risks, including abdominal obesity, high cholesterol, and elevated blood sugar, urging parents to monitor these indicators beyond just weight.
Hundreds of four-year-olds among ‘extremely overweight’ patients at 39 specialist centres since 2021More than 6,000 children living with obesity, including hundreds as young as four, have required treatment at specialist NHS weight-loss clinics, new figures reveal.NHS England data, published for the first time, underlines the scale of the growing childhood obesity crisis. Continue reading...
The UK government is introducing the first major update to school food standards in 13 years, banning deep-fried foods and requiring higher fruit content in desserts to tackle childhood obesity. The changes will be implemented in phases starting in September.
