Obese Coventry children 'will die younger than parents'

[Northerner]

OBESE children in Coventry are being warned they are in danger of eating themselves to an early grave.

The city?s obesity problem means some youngsters may even die sooner than their parents, health bosses have warned.

And other overweight children may have shorter life expectancies than their mums and dads.

In Coventry, a quarter of children are overweight by the time they start school.

That means they are at greater risk from illnesses such as cancer, heart disease and diabetes at a young age.

The warning comes at the same time the Telegraph has learned that the city plans to scrap key staff from its ?healthy weight? projects.

http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/ne...will-die-younger-than-parents-92746-32592042/

 

[trophywench]

Girl I worked with had a letter about her child being overweight.

Well yes she probably was in comparison to most of her class. In fact I'm postive she would have been bearing in mind she was nearly 12 months younger than the majority of them and already 10 inches taller ......

But there was no actual 'fat' on her. She was 'just right' for her size, and really really good at all the sports a 6 year old can reasonably get involved in.

 

[StephenM]

Like all things in schools too much is based on targets and averages. In this area though a lot more responsibility has to be put on the parents. If you have children they are your responsibility not everyone elses. If you don't understand healthy eating you are not fit to be a parent!

 

[Steff]

Like all things in schools too much is based on targets and averages. In this area though a lot more responsibility has to be put on the parents. If you have children they are your responsibility not everyone elses. If you don't understand healthy eating you are not fit to be a parent!

Half the time the parents aint got a clue themselves what a healthy diet is, far rather then feed there child healthy nutritional food it's a case of here's a fivva get yourself a McDonald's.

Your spot on Stephen dont procreate if you can't be responsible

 

[Northerner]

Half the time the parents aint got a clue themselves what a healthy diet is, far rather then feed there child healthy nutritional food it's a case of here's a fivva get yourself a McDonald's.

Your spot on Stephen dont procreate if you can't be responsible

I think to be fair, a lot of parents may think they are feeding their kids healthy food, because the marketing of stuff is so slick that they get taken in. 'Low-fat', for example, may be seen as healthy, but most people don't know that usually the fat is replaced by more sugar or salt.

You really have to be on the ball these days, and as diabetics we tend to be more sceptical of claims and look more closely. Well, some of us do - unfortunately, there are probably thousands of diabetics who don't and just follow poor outdated advice or expect their medication to keep them on track

 

[trophywench]

You can avoid this by not living in Coventry if you have kids.

Wish you would in fact, it's a PITA trying to get past any of the numerous schools in this vicinity at chucking out time!

 

[Northerner]

You can avoid this by not living in Coventry if you have kids.

Wish you would in fact, it's a PITA trying to get past any of the numerous schools in this vicinity at chucking out time!

Just don't move to Southampton with 'em!