Obesity rates among children have fallen for the second year in a row but a top doctor has sounded the alarm over a “horrifying” rise in underweight pupils.
Some 16 per cent of primary school children – 190,865 of the 1.18m surveyed – were considered to be obese or overweight in 2022-23, with 34,766 severely obese, according to NHS figures published Thursday. That was down from 17 per cent on the year before after soaring to a record high during the pandemic.
