Bullying has emerged as a “very big issue” from a study of children attending a hospital-based obesity treatment programme, with 63% bullied about their weight.

A study in Denmark that helps children fight obesity has had unprecedented success. Could it be replicated here, asks Sharon Ni Chonchuir.

WHEN Dara-Lynn Weiss decided to come ‘the heavy’ with her overweight seven-year-old, she couldn’t have imagined the controversy.

Lillie Dixon, who weighed 38kg when she was just six years old, is one of more than 300 children to benefit from a unique family-based childhood obesity treatment programme.