Fat chance for kids to avoid fast food stores

Three quarters of post-primary schools have one or more fast food outlets within 1km of them, a major conference on health will hear today.

The conference, hosted by the Institute of Public Health in Ireland (IPH), will also hear that the stigma associated with attending childhood obesity treatment programmes needs to be tackled to improve uptake of such programmes.

The IPH’s fourth annual Open Conference is due to opened by Tony O’Brien, director general of the Health Service Executive (HSE).