More than one in five children under the age of four in Britain are overweight and nearly one in ten is classified as obese, claims a study in last week's British Medical Journal. Peter Bundred, reader in primary care at Liverpool University, said encouraging breastfeeding, regular family meals and giving children more choice over eating would be 'logical nutritional interventions that are likely to reduce young children's access to foods that are high in calories'.
More than one in five children under the age of four in Britain are overweight and nearly one in ten is classified as obese, claims a study in last week's British Medical Journal. Peter Bundred, reader in primary care at Liverpool University, said encouraging breastfeeding, regular family meals and giving children more choice over eating would be 'logical nutritional interventions that are likely to reduce young children's access to foods that are high in calories'.
