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GPs urged to measure children for obesity during routine visits
Sep 27th, 2012
Doctors should make a pre-emptive strike at childhood obesity by measuring children’s Body Mass...
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Would you say the F word to your child? Not the swear word, that other taboo: Fat

A friend of mine knows her soon-to-be-teenage daughter is overweight. She’s recognized it for a...
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Girl of four weighing THREE stone gets NHS obesity warning letter
Apr 23rd, 2012
Another day, and another family get a bonkers letter from their local health authority branding...
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Four stone five-year-old branded overweight by NHS
Mar 6th, 2012
A five-year-old boy weighing in at 4st 3lb was branded 'overweight' and warned he could suffer ill...
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Three stone five-year-old branded overweight by NHS
Jul 28th, 2011
The NHS have written to the parents of a 3st 5lb (21.3kg) five-year-old boy from Nottinghamshire...
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Link between newborn death and obese mums is 'worrying', say medics
Mar 25th, 2011
A new report claims the number of deaths in newborn babies to obese mums is 'worryingly high'. ...
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