Childhood obesity ‘seen as inevitable’

There is “near complete” normalisation of the childhood obesity epidemic, a health expert told an Oireachtas committee.

“We are immune to the stark statistics, and we almost see the situation as inevitable and insoluble,” said Safefood’s director of human health and nutrition, Dr Cliodhna Foley-Nolan.

Childhood obesity had become “a very stubborn health issue,” she told a meeting of the Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs, yesterday.