More than 6,000 children treated at obesity clinics in England, figures show
Key takeaways
- Experts said the figures were extremely worrying and called for immediate action to curb sales of junk food.
- Prefer the Guardian on GoogleMore than 6,000 children living with obesity, including hundreds as young as four, have required treatment at specialist NHS weight-loss clinics, new figures reveal.
- NHS England data, published for the first time, underlines the scale of the growing childhood obesity crisis.
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Experts said the figures were extremely worrying and called for immediate action to curb sales of junk food. Photograph: Stuart Boulton/Alamy View image in fullscreen Experts said the figures were extremely worrying and called for immediate action to curb sales of junk food. Photograph: Stuart Boulton/Alamy Obesity More than 6,000 children treated at obesity clinics in England, figures show Hundreds of four-year-olds among ‘extremely overweight’ patients at 39 specialist centres since 2021
Prefer the Guardian on GoogleMore than 6,000 children living with obesity, including hundreds as young as four, have required treatment at specialist NHS weight-loss clinics, new figures reveal.
NHS England data, published for the first time, underlines the scale of the growing childhood obesity crisis.