A healthy balance for children

Leave the weighing scales at the doctors: the power to fight child obesity lies with parents and the food we decide to give, and not give, our children.

RECENTLY, Feelgood reported that Kildare GP Dr Brendan O’Shea recommends that family doctors weigh children in the fight against childhood obesity.

According to a study which involved 500 children, almost 99% of the parents found this useful.