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Parliment Demands Annual Fat Test For Children

Times Online (UK):

All children will be ordered to have an annual -- to prevent them becoming so obese that they die before their parents, under proposals being considered by ministers.

The plan follows a scathing report on the obesity epidemic in Britain by the Commons Select Committee on Health, which gives warning of a doomsday scenario where thousands lose limbs and sight from fat-related illnesses.

It cites the recent case of a three-year-old child whose death was blamed partly on extreme obesity. Doctors described the incident as one of several cases of children "choking on their own fat."

Posted by Timothy Fredel at May 27, 2004 03:17 PM | TrackBack
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