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More than 6,000 children treated at obesity clinics in England, figures show

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Experts said the figures were extremely worrying and called for immediate action to curb sales of junk food. Photograph: Stuart Boulton/Alamy

More than 6,000 children living with obesity, including hundreds as young as four, have required treatment at specialist NHS weight-loss clinics, new figures reveal.

NHS England data, published for the first time, underlines the scale of the growing childhood obesity crisis.

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