With child nutrition and obesity making headlines again over recent weeks it seems that the message of eating healthily and leading an active lifestyle is failing to hit home. New figures on children’s weight in England, published by the NHS Information Centre for Health and Social Care, show that among children in their final year at primary school, one child in three is overweight or obese. The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health meanwhile has discovered a fourfold increase in the last 15 years in rickets, the bone disease associated more with Victorian times, linked to a lack of vitamin D.
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