One third of children in Leicester 'are overweight or obese'

[DennisNedry]

Where does 1 in 3 come from?

 

Whenever you see kids walking to and from school (without sounding like a paedo) the number of overweight kids is no where near that ratio. Unless all the fat kids are driven to school

[I am Rod Hull]

Yes, always what ive been told

 

I think it depends how long it takes from it being picked to being frozen. I`m sure that veg loses nutritional value at a steady rate the second that its picked, sooooo freezing it quickly locks the lovely goodness unlike "fresh" off the shelf supermarket stuff.

[Thracian]

 

Health bosses are running a series of programmes to help tackle the problem of childhood obesity.

It comes as new figures published by the Health and Social Care Information Centre showed more than a third of 10 and 11-year-olds in Leicester are classed as overweight or obese.

Of the 3,381 year six pupils weighed in the past year, 1,180 (34.9 per cent) were over their recommended weight.

Of these, 713 (21 per cent) were classed as obese.

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The overall proportion for obese and overweight children was down slightly, from 35.1 per cent in 2012.

However, it is still above the English average of 33.3 per cent and the East Midlands average of 32.8 per cent.

Rod Moore, Leicester City Council's divisional director of public health, said: "It is promising that the proportion of obese or overweight children in both reception year and year six has reduced slightly since last year.

"However, levels of childhood obesity are a concern.

"A number of initiatives and services are being run across the city to help to tackle the problem."

These include schemes in children's centres and nurseries to improve nutrition.

Another programme aims to train school staff about the importance of healthy eating, and offers families cooking courses.

The figures also showed 428 children starting at city schools were classed as obese – up from 412 the previous year.

Obesity is measured by a child's body mass index, which is calculated using both height and weight and it also takes into account age and sex.

The number of children weighing more than they should on leaving school in Leicestershire and Rutland has dropped from 2,056 last year to 2,001.

A total of 7,320 reception pupils and 6,477 in year six were measured in the two counties.

The number of year six pupils classed as obese has also fallen from 1,078, in 2011/12, to 1,062 in the past year.

In reception classes, 1,376 were overweight or obese. This compares to 1,489 the previous year.

Councillor Ernie White, the county council lead for health, said: "It is good news that the number of overweight or obese children in year six – 30.9 per cent – is significantly lower than the averages for England and the East Midlands."

Read more: http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/Schemes-curb-childhood-obesity/story-20399756-detail/story.html#ixzz2pRGZIjgs

 

 

 

 

I love the idea of "health bosses" running "initiatives". I never go anywhere where my work surfaces need to be cleaned more than in Leicester from the filth from air pollution.

And people sit around for ages in the Infirmary receiving areas...one had been there for over 12 hours this week and another group for at least four without being seen other than to give their names. 

The City is like a building site with Soulsby seemingly determined to initiate a traffic jam on every street (very good for obesity) and the sugar-laden rubbish so many shops are serving to kids in poorer districts has to be believed. Initiatives?

Talk about hypocrisy. Is someone taking the piss?

A 10 minute drive from West Leicestershire now takes 45 minutes even along the motorway - that's 35 minutes of unnecessary sitting down there and back...just going into town. For passengers as well as the driver! 

You used to be able to do it along the A47  in 20 minutes but now there are so many obstacles, hold ups and under-utilised bus lanes it's 50 minutes and even then it's often best to divert through places like Kirby Muxloe and New Parks.

As for exercise I have a friend who's on the verge of a breakdown through the lack of help from her husband in helping look after her brood. His car's out of action so he doesn't get down much. He's three miles away! But no, he can't walk, run or cycle poor soul

Get off your arses people and stop feeling so sorry for yourselves and so easily accepting that someone else will look after you. Look after yourself. Eat sensibly, exercise properly, stop mistreating your body and start being positive. Other people have got enough problems without taking yours on without good reason.              

[purpleronnie]

we need to ban all ipod's ipad's, iphone's and get them outside.

[Webbo]

we need to ban all ipod's ipad's, iphone's and get them outside.

You can post on an Ipad from outside.

[purpleronnie]

You can post on an Ipad from outside.

Not if they're banned.

[Dan]

Still don't buy these figures. Where are they possibly getting the information?

[Captain...]

Where does 1 in 3 come from?

 

Whenever you see kids walking to and from school (without sounding like a paedo) the number of overweight kids is no where near that ratio. Unless all the fat kids are driven to school

 

If you are talking BMI overweight, you don't need much excess body fat to be overweight. BMI always tells me I'm overweight but if I passed you in the street you wouldn't look at me and say I'm fat, but I could probably lose a couple of pounds. Overweight is not really a problem obese is. The original article says 21% so 1 in 5 are obese, that is worrying.

[ADK]

If you are talking BMI overweight, you don't need much excess body fat to be overweight. BMI always tells me I'm overweight but if I passed you in the street you wouldn't look at me and say I'm fat, but I could probably lose a couple of pounds. Overweight is not really a problem obese is. The original article says 21% so 1 in 5 are obese, that is worrying.

 

I read It as being 1 in 15. "34.9% are overweight, of these 21% are obese". I read that as 21% of 34.9% which is 7.3%. There's no way 1 in 5 kids are actually obese unless they have hidden underground fat schools. I was a fat child a lot of the time and was never actually obese, you have to be pretty fat to be obese.

[Captain...]

I read It as being 1 in 15. "34.9% are overweight, of these 21% are obese". I read that as 21% of 34.9% which is 7.3%. There's no way 1 in 5 kids are actually obese unless they have hidden underground fat schools. I was a fat child a lot of the time and was never actually obese, you have to be pretty fat to be obese.

 

You're right, was reading it too quickly, 7.3% that makes more sense.