Fattest adults were ‘overweight at age 10’

IT’S true what they say: fat children become fat adults.

Research goes even further, showing the fattest adults in Ireland became overweight before the age of 10.

A four-year long study of obese patients has found people with the most severe degree of obesity were those who became overweight at a very young age.

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