The body weight of a normal child will be 20% to 25% fat but specialists report that they are now seeing toddlers with up to 50% body fat. Professor Timothy Barrett – a paediatrician who runs a clinic for children with diabetes at Birmingham’s Children’s Hospital - is currently treating obese children under the age of four. Dietician Laura Stewart – who runs the Children’s Weight Clinic in Edinburgh - blames poor diet and a lack of exercise for the growing numbers of obese children. She and Professor Barrett join Jane Little to discuss an epidemic that threatens to make a fifth of our children obese by 2010.
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