Taskforce report - Act now or face obesity nightmare

There is clearly an urgent need for the Government to take control of the problem of obesity in the country’s children because it is obviously not the concern of just one Government department or agency.

Just how important it is can be gauged by the fact that children are being presented at much earlier ages suffering from obesity, some as young as two years.

Before child obesity assumes crisis proportions, responsibility for implementing the more than 80 recommendations contained in the report of the National Taskforce on Obesity must be taken from the Health Executive Service (HSE).