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Council spends £20,000 on Fat Camps for overweight schoolkids
Apr 5th, 2013Nottingham City Council will target pupils as young as five by sending teams of US-style Fat Camp...
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GPs urged to measure children for obesity during routine visits
Sep 27th, 2012Doctors 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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Youngest ever gastric bypass operation - 12 years old and her uncle was the surgeon!
Jun 12th, 2012Betsy Sanchez was just 12 when she became the world’s youngest gastric sleeve patient. She and her...
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Britain's fattest teen: House partially demolished so medics could get her to hospital
May 25th, 2012Firefighters, medics and engineers were forced to demolish part of a house to get a poorly 63-stone...
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Twenty three stone mum goes on maternity leave - and loses half her body weight!
May 24th, 2012Determined Jacqueline Illingworth used her maternity leave to become half the woman she used to be!
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Babies born by C-section more likely to be obese, says study
May 24th, 2012As if parents hadn’t had enough blame levelled at them for the childhood obesity crisis, now mums...
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Expectant mums told to diet for healthy babies
May 18th, 2012Pregnant mums have been told they don't need to eat for two to have a healthy baby.
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Obese kids lose more weight with dieting smart phone apps than traditional weight loss...
May 10th, 2012Kids who are overweight lose more weight if they use an app on their smart phone than if they use...
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