Obesity is a real public health issue.
We need to educate people into making healthier eating choices. As experts warn that cases of child obesity are rising faster than ever before, ITN looks at what causes youngsters to put on too much weight. Kids weighing more More than one in five children under the age of four are overweight and nearly one in ten are classified as obese, according to new research. Babies as young as one are developing weight problems - and the number of fat children in the UK has risen dramatically in the last ten years. Toddlers are becoming couch potatoes and need to be encouraged to exercise more, according to the study published in the British Medical Journal.