Overweight children 'could fill Croker and Aviva'

The Director of Human Health and Nutrition at Safefood says Irish children are living in a hostile and toxic environment when it comes to childhood obesity.

Overweight children 'could fill Croker and Aviva'

The Director of Human Health and Nutrition at Safefood says Irish children are living in a hostile and toxic environment when it comes to childhood obesity.

Dr Cliodhna Foley-Nolan says one in five preschool children are either overweight or obese and this rises to one in four when it comes to eight year olds.

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