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Alarming childhood obesity rates
South Wales Evening Post
|July 02, 2025
CHILDHOOD obesity has risen to “alarming" levels, academics have said as they called for action to prevent unhealthy lifestyles setting in among babies and toddlers.
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The rates of childhood obesity in Wales are the highest in the UK, with about 35% of children (under 16 years old) being overweight or obese in 2011.
According to the latest National Childhood Measurement Programme figures, one in 10 (9.6%) children in England are obese when they begin their schooling. And 22.1% of 10 and 11-year-olds in Year 6 are obese.
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