What Is Making My Child Fat? Part 2: The Debate and Your Questions.
The Food Programme
BBC
4.4 • 977 Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2020
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
When Professor Dame Sally Davies left her role as Chief Medical Officer for England in Autumn 2019, she didn't go quietly. Instead, she published a strongly titled, independent, 96 page report 'Time To Solve Childhood Obesity'.
"The Government ambition" she wrote "is to halve childhood obesity by 2030 – in England, we are nowhere near achieving this. Yet, if we are bold, we can."
What followed were a plethora of recommendations for Government bodies, local authorities, schools, researchers, the NHS, the private sector and more.
In the second of two programmes, Sheila Dillon invites an expert panel into the studio to discuss the issues, possible solutions and to answer your questions on child obesity related health and disease.
Presented by Sheila Dillon. Produced by Clare Salisbury.
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| 1:01.6 | Beast. You need to start with the parents. |
| 1:04.0 | As a single parent on low income. |
| 1:07.0 | Sugar is the primary reason why children are fat and for that matter why adults are fat. |
| 1:12.0 | Hello and welcome and for that matter why adults are fat. |
| 1:13.0 | Hello and welcome to the second part of our program focusing on child obesity in the UK. |
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| 1:23.4 | And today, we've invited a group of people with a real range of expertise into a BBC studio |
| 1:29.6 | to see if we can come up with some solutions to the problems the UK is facing in the wake of increasing |
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