Nanny says that more than 22,000 children will leave primary school dangerously obese this year.
The number of 10 and 11-year-olds classed as severely obese, the most overweight scale, in the final year of primary school is also nearly double that of those in reception.
More than 22,000 out of 556,000 of children in Year 6 are classed as severely obese, a significant increase on the 15,000 four and five-year-olds in the category.
The Local Government Association (LGA), which obtained the figures, said this showed children were gaining weight at a drastic rate as they went through school.
The first data of its kind for 2016-17, obtained by the LGA and supplied by the National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP), show that a total of 22,646 out of 556,452 10 and 11-year-olds (4.1 per cent) are classed as severely obese. For children aged four and five, reception class age, the figure is 14,787 out of 629,359 in total (2.35 per cent).
Severe obesity rates are highest in children living in the most deprived towns and cities, and those from BME groups, which the LGA suggested shows a need for more targeted interventions.
Nanny just loves targeted interventions.
Two points:
1 As we all know, BMI is a bollocks way to determine obesity.
2 As In noted last week, childhood obesity figures are bollocks!
However, Nanny doesn't care because she wants to have her targeted interventions.
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You don't have to work for a research company to notice that kids are getting fatter, but it seems that the figures are being plucked from thin air.
ReplyDeletePeer pressure is a powerful weapon. It is no longer acceptable to call your classmate a lardy arsed fucker. You now have to respect them and their positive body image.
Health and Safety along with schools not wanting to engage in competitive sports means that there is no longer kids racing around playgrounds and playing football or netball at weekends.
Lazy sports teachers now consider their day to be finished once the final bell sounds. They are unwilling to offer after school activities.
Well meaning sports coaches are not prepared to go through the government's 'nonce tests' to be allowed to teach kids.
Sweets can be brought anywhere. From petrol stations, grocers, supermarkets and anywhere else with sufficient shelf space. Local councils hand out licences for sweet shops, regardless of the fact that there are probably 2 dozen others within walking distance.
Kids vegetate in front of video games. Their parents to afraid to let them go out by themselves and too bone idle to accompany them.
The art of preparing a meal from scratch is in deep decline as buying processed food and takeaways is so much less demanding.
Put that lot together and it is inevitable that you will end up with an obese, unfit society.