Fast food nation

THE nightmare scenario facing modern Ireland is clear: unless children stop eating so much junk food and do more exercise, they risk dying before their parents do.

Fast food nation

This is no Doomsday scenario dreamt up by scaremongers but a very real prediction from dieticians and medics worried about the health of the nation’s children. So worried, in fact, that they use terms normally reserved for tabloid media — such as crisis and epidemic.

Professional nutritionist Margot Brennan from the Irish Nutrition and Dietetic Institute says: “Certainly we have a huge problem with obesity and being overweight in the population at the moment.

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