More than one in every five boys in aged 10 or 11 and in Year 6 in Bristol and the West Country are classified as ‘obese’, the Government has announced, as the NHS launches a new series of clinics especially for children to tackle this issue. There has been a 44 per cent rise in ‘severe obesity’ rates in just the past two years, and now more than 10,000 Year 6 children in the West Country are obese.
The latest figures, which are taken from health checks done in schools with children in Year 6, are the highest since records began, and indicate increasing levels of inactivity, with the pandemic blamed as a factor.
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