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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" We're no obe-city! "
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- Published on Tuesday, 08 November 2011
The SUN is never short of a snappy headline - and the Rotherham Institute for Obesity [RIO]'s claim that its patients have lost more that 10 tonnes over the last two years gave the tabloid another chance to shine. Rotherham's message in particular is that not enough children are being referred to its weight-loss service. Matt Capehorn, RIO's clinical manager and clinical director of NOF, emphasised that tackling childhood obesity now would save generations of overweight adults in the future.
Capehorn's statement is yet another reminder that the coalition government's recent " Call to Action " on obesity [see below] is still not focussed enough on children and that we will continually be seeing overweight/obeses children until it is. Rotherham primary schools' 2010-2011 National Child Measurement Programme weight figures will be published in December. Will they be as dramatic as RIO's success? Watch this space!