Obesity crisis - Children set to die before their parents

THERE is no way to mask the enormity of the problem posed by the crisis of obesity, and last year’s Government National Taskforce on Obesity is proving, unfortunately, to have been almost prophetic.

It predicted that this may be the first generation where children will have a lower life expectancy than their parents.

Now dieticians and medical professionals are convinced that if the trend of eating so much junk food, combined with insufficient exercise, is not arrested, young people will, quite bluntly, die before their parents.