NHS tells parents to feed their babies crisps and junk food

Parents are told to feed their children junk food. Credit: PA Wire

A NHS trust is advising parents to feed their children junk food, including crisps and chocolate, despite calls for urgent need to tackle childhood obesity.

According to The Telegraph, leaflets given to families by Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust recommend feeding babies aged over eight months crisps, chocolate bars, fried foods and sugary sweets.

The leaflet gives parents baby food suggestions. Credit: The Telegraph

The leaflet is supposed to help babies with “problems managing lumpy foods”.

Tracey Nutter, director of nursing at Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, told the paper the leaflet was the “first of several documents given to a small number of parents with babies and toddlers who have significant feeding problems and are failing to progress onto solid food for a variety of medical or developmental reasons”.