Call For Joined-Up Approach To Tackling Childhood Obesity

Fools.

A united front is needed to tackle childhood obesity effectively, according to researchers at the University of Hertfordshire's Weight and Obesity Research Group.

With this in mind, over 100 health professionals and decision makers will gather to develop a joined-up approach to evaluating programmes to tackle the topic, at a conference at the University of Hertfordshire next week.

Dr Wendy Wills, who leads the University's Weight and Obesity Research Group and who is a key researcher in the field of childhood obesity, will host Childhood Obesity Interventions: Challenges of Evaluations in Community Settings, which will take place at College Lane Campus on Wednesday 3 November from 1-4.30pm.

"We organised this conference because we want to bring together professionals from across the National Health Service (NHS) so that we can discuss different ways of evaluating childhood obesity programmes to help decide which ones work best," said Dr Wills.

There is one and only one programme that works best.

The programme that holds parents accountable for nutritional child abuse and the mandatory reporters who enable the abuse by failing to perform their legally required duties.

That goes for the UK, USA, AU and everyplace else.