Child obesity is a 'national emergency'. So what is Jeremy Hunt doing about it?

At the Conservative party conference, the health secretary wore a lanyard advertising Tate & Lyle, which manufactures sugar – a leading cause of obesity

Obesity was a factor in more than 525,000 hospital admissions last year, and obesity rates have risen from 15% in 1993 to 27% in 2015.

Child health experts describe the level of childhood obesity in the United Kingdom as a “state of emergency”.

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from Children | The Guardian http://ift.tt/2xiNpl8