Monday, 5 March 2007

Childhood obesity Trends



This diagram shows a growth in the obesity of children

'High levels of overweight and obesity among children are likely to exacerbate the trend towards overweight and obesity in the adult population, since compared to thin children, obese children have a high risk of becoming overweight adults.

Between 1995 and 2004 the prevalence of obesity almost doubled among English boys (from 11% to 19%) and increased by over a half in girls (from 12% to 19%). '

from http://www.heartstats.org/datapage.asp?id=1011

2 comments:

LATYMERMEDIA said...

lovin' your work siobhan!! ms b

Ms Brookes said...

link on how doctors advise parents to avoid children obesity.

http://www.med.umich.edu/1libr/yourchild/fightobesity.htm