Obesity 9% lower at schools with health schemes

Childhood obesity has been found to be 9% lower in schools that took part in a targeted health programme.

Researchers at Trinity College Dublin found 16% of children in schools that used a healthy schools programme were obese, compared with 25% in schools that did not.

Almost three out of four children who took part in the programme were within their normal weight, compared with 58% of children in the control schools’ group.