Children Overweight When They Start School In England

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"New figures released this week show that one fifth of children in England are either obese or overweight when they start school at age four or five, and for those in Year 6, the final year of primary school, the picture is even bleaker, and shows nearly one in three children are overweight or obese in the lead up to secondary school at age ten or eleven.

The figures are part of a new report released by the The NHS Information Centre on Thursday, which shows the results of the government's National Child Measurement Programme 2008/09 that requires reception year children (age four or five) and Year 6 children (age ten and eleven) to be measured and thus establish a national picture of what proportion of pupils are 'underweight', 'healthy weight', 'overweight' and 'obese'.

The figures only reflect children in state schools in England in the school year 2008/09. According to the Independent Schools Council, around 7.2 per cent of children in the UK do not attend state schools: they are educated in the private system."

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