Child obesity can't be 'cured with jabs'

IT is ’’morally unreasonable’’ to let children become obese only to put them on weight loss jabs as soon as they become adults, England’s chief medical officer has said.

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Professor Sir Chris Whitty said the nation will be ’’seen to have failed’’ on childhood obesity which is ’’storing up so much trouble for the future’’.

Speaking to former health ministers Steve Brine and Lord Bethell on the Prevention is the New Cure podcast, Sir Chris said: ’’I think we’ll be judged as having done a good job on smoking, and hopefully vaping, and I think a moderately good job on air pollution — I think there’s certainly more we could do.