Child obesity has doubled in 10 years
Ever-fatter teenagers are health timebombs! Times Online reports here: Health experts fear blindness and limb loss from diabetes will follow. Nearly half of teenage girls and more than a third of teenage boys in England are overweight or obese, figures suggest. The inexorable upward trend continued in 2004, despite a plethora of government initiatives to stem it, according to the Health Survey of England, published yesterday.