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THE NATION?S childhood obesity crisis could be far worse than official figures show with tens of thousands of overweight children being at health risk without realising it, shocking new research suggests.
Experts from a Yorkshire university have revealed that measuring childhood obesity through Body Mass Index (BMI) may be providing inaccurate figures and failing to spot thousands of youngsters ? especially girls ? whose weight could put them at risk of diabetes or cardiovascular illness later in life.
An intensive study of almost 15,000 secondary school children in Leeds has measured pupils? obesity using both BMI scores and their waist circumference (WC), shockingly revealing how more than 2,000 11-year-olds have a waist measurement above that which indicates serious risk in adult women.
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news...tent-of-children-s-obesity-revealed-1-4646711
Experts from a Yorkshire university have revealed that measuring childhood obesity through Body Mass Index (BMI) may be providing inaccurate figures and failing to spot thousands of youngsters ? especially girls ? whose weight could put them at risk of diabetes or cardiovascular illness later in life.
An intensive study of almost 15,000 secondary school children in Leeds has measured pupils? obesity using both BMI scores and their waist circumference (WC), shockingly revealing how more than 2,000 11-year-olds have a waist measurement above that which indicates serious risk in adult women.
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news...tent-of-children-s-obesity-revealed-1-4646711