News and Opinion
There are stories relating to obesity breaking around the world every day. The stories below are those where journalists haver sought NOF opnion/quotes or summaries of research on which NOF may have a view. Where possible the source of the stories are identified by the newspaper banner or a URL in red.
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Why your child should be like Scooby
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- Published on Thursday, 15 September 2011
The Department of Health is partnering with the TV children's programme
LazyTown in an initiative to help 2-5 yr olds ditch junk food and take up more healthy exercise. In a poll of 20 children's TV shows Scooby Doo was voted the best programme but it was the LazyTown acrobatic Sporatcus that was named the Healthiest Character. In the initative, activity packs will be distributed from the UK's 3,600 Sure Start Children's centres.
As part of its coverage, THE SUN contacted the NOF to come up with six bullet points to encourage kids to adopt a fitter lifestyle. Top of the was the list was the tip to ditch the buggy whenever possible followed closely by a prompt to get children back into the habit of the simple, enjoyable activities that used to be standard - playing hopscotch, skipping, and going on swings in the park. Sportacus, played by Marcus Scheving and the inspiration behind the creation of " LazyTown ", once began a presentation at an NOF national conference by walking to the podium - on his hands!