{"id":3606,"date":"2018-06-01T08:34:49","date_gmt":"2018-06-01T08:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=3606"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:49:08","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:49:08","slug":"22000-children-aged-10-and-11-are-obese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2018\/06\/01\/22000-children-aged-10-and-11-are-obese\/","title":{"rendered":"22,000 children aged 10 and 11 are obese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">&#8230;according to the latest report from the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local.gov.uk\/about\/news\/22000-children-severely-obese-when-they-leave-primary-school\">Local Government Association.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">The House of Commons also released the report: <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/publications.parliament.uk\/pa\/cm201719\/cmselect\/cmhealth\/882\/882.pdf\">House of Commons Health Committee Childhood obesity: Time for action.<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">It includes reviews of recent reports, evidence from stakeholders and consideration of such factors as labelling and junk food advertising to children.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">The official data used for measurement of childhood obesity is the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/fingertips.phe.org.uk\/profile\/national-child-measurement-programme\/data#page\/0\/gid\/8000011\/pat\/6\/par\/E12000007\/ati\/102\/are\/E09000004\/iid\/93194\/age\/200\/sex\/4\">National Child Measurement Programme<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000\">. This has profiles of child weight by age and borough so it is possible to compare local areas. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Other useful resources include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.evidence.nhs.uk\/search?q=obesity+research\">NHS evidence:<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000\"> can be searched for examples of\u00a0health programmes used by the NHS.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/childhood-obesity-a-plan-for-action\/childhood-obesity-a-plan-for-action\">UK government action plans<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local.gov.uk\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/childhood-obesity-has-bee-c95.pdf\">Reports of case studies<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000\"> of efforts by local government to reduce obesity. <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncb.org.uk\/sites\/default\/files\/field\/attachment\/Working%20together%20to%20reduce%20childhood%20obesity_0.pdf\">NCB: has examples of programmes<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000\"> involving the voluntary sector and local government.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/childrensfoodtrust.org.uk\/wp\/blog\/research-subject\/obesity\/\">The Children&#8217;s Food Trust:<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000\"> has surveys of children&#8217;s eating habits and examples of how to change eating behaviour.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;according to the latest report from the Local Government Association. The House of Commons also released the report: House of Commons Health Committee Childhood obesity: Time for action.\u00a0\u00a0It includes reviews of recent reports, evidence from stakeholders and consideration of such factors as labelling and junk food advertising to children. 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