Weigh all children to tackle obesity: experts

All children should be weighed and measured as part of a school-based program to monitor childhood obesity in Australia, experts have proposed.

Writing in Pediatric Obesity last week a team from the WHO Collaborating Centre for Obesity Prevention at Deakin University criticised the Federal Government for failing to routinely monitor children’s body measurements, which they said was a “fundamental component of obesity prevention”.

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