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Overweight UK ChildrenA study published in the British Medical Journal last summer reported that one in five nine-year-old children is overweight and one in 10 is obese; and the alarming fact is that these figures have almost doubled in the past decade. It is easy to attribute this to a change in diet, but what children eat is only partly to blame. This growing trend is more to do with some fundamental changes in way of life and the gap on the energy balance sheet between incomings and outgoings. Quite simply, children are eating more and exercising less. So serious has the problem become that an International Obesity Task Force has been formed and Fat Camps, to which parents can send their overweight children to lose weight, have been set up. So what's to blame? Basically, the four Cs: chips, computers, the curriculum and too much parental caution. Chips, because children eat more junk food than ever before. Computers, because there are few children who aren't under Microsoft's magic spell and most are more likely to be managing a virtual football team or playing on-screen tennis than engaging in sport for themselves. When they are not in the interactive computer world, many are sitting comfortably watching sport on a 24-hour cable television channel. For next page, click Overweight Kids & Lack of Sport Short Articles About Teenage Weight Loss and Diet
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