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Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Half of overweight or obese 13-year-olds are exercising and dieting to lose weight, a new report has found.
The findings are part of the Growing Up in Ireland study released yesterday which found that of the 8,500 children surveyed, 20 per cent were overweight and 6 per cent were obese.
The children had been interviewed four years earlier, aged nine, as part of the Government-sponsored study led by the ESRI and Trinity College Dublin.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2012/1130/1224327302936.html
The findings are part of the Growing Up in Ireland study released yesterday which found that of the 8,500 children surveyed, 20 per cent were overweight and 6 per cent were obese.
The children had been interviewed four years earlier, aged nine, as part of the Government-sponsored study led by the ESRI and Trinity College Dublin.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2012/1130/1224327302936.html