More needs to be done to tackle the "obesity timebomb" in children, the health watchdog Nice has warned. New guidance suggests parents of obese children should cut the amount of time their offspring spends watching TV and playing computer games.
More needs to be done to tackle the "obesity timebomb" in children, including identifying families who are in denial about their child's weight, experts say.
New guidance from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice) says parents and children must be encouraged to face up to the fact obesity can lead to health problems in later life.
It says: "Efforts to manage a child or young person's weight are not always supported, and are sometimes undermined, by members of the wider family.
"This is possibly because of a lack of understanding of the aims of lifestyle weight management programmes and the importance of managing the weight of obese or overweight children and young people."
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