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    • Obese Children

    Filed under: — Posted by: Rachel on June 9, 2011

    Child obesity is a growing problem throughout the world, not just the UK and America. Children are eating the wrong things, failing to exercise regularly and they often aren’t getting the right messages from their parents.

    Here are some of the many pictures we have found online of obesity in children. The intention in this gallery is to make people aware of just how much of a problem child obesity is in the UK, and to begin to do something about it.

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    1. [...] three out of ten children in the United Kingdom are overweight, this may be a book that tackles child obesity in a sensible way, with a healthy diet and plenty of exercise being the main focus. However, the [...]

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