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Cancer Warning For Obese Children
posted 04/10/04
A health expert has warned that tens of thousands of
overweight children are in danger of dying before their parents.
Dr Colin Waine, of the National Obesity Forum, in London, said obese children
were up to 20% more likely to develop cancer as adults than those of a healthy
weight.
Dr Waine stated that, recent research had shown a disturbing link childhood
obesity and cancer in adults. "An obese boy is 14% more likely to develop cancer
as an adult and an obese girl is 20% more likely to develop cancer as an adult.
"In terms of childhood obesity, there are so many cardiovascular risk factors
present in children with serious obesity that we are in danger of breeding a
generation who will die before their parents," he said.
"This is such a serious issue that children are now displaying illnesses
previously seen in adults like certain types of diabetes and heart disease." Dr
Waine and other health experts recently called on a Health Select Committee to
include obesity in the National Service Framework, thus forcing doctors to
devote more resources to its treatment.
The health department spokesman said the government was committed to tackling
rising levels of obesity. He said prescriptions for obesity drugs had tripled
and stressed the importance of local schemes encouraging children to take
physical exercise. The British government is awaiting a report this summer on a
possible link between advertising and children's consumption of junk food.
Source: Diabetes In Control.com.
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