Parents ‘must get help for obese children’

PARENTS must stop making excuses for their obese children and get help, a doctor has urged.

Parents ‘must get help for obese children’

One-in-four Irish children is either overweight or obese, according to figures released by the European Task Force on Obesity.

Such children are already well on their way to developing heart disease, diabetes and other chronic diseases.

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