According to the National Child Measurement Programme, obesity rates in reception age children jumped from 9.9% to 14.4% over a single year that consisted of repeated lockdowns and restrictions, meaning that one in seven children begin primary school classified as obese. Meanwhile, for children in their last year of primary school, the obesity rate leapt from 21% to 25.5%. The Telegraph has more.
Experts said the figures were “alarming” and showed Covid lockdowns had a devastating impact on children’s health, because many spent more time snacking and less time exercising as a result of being confined to their homes.
Children as young as two could now get diet coaches as part of a national obesity drive, the head of the NHS said on Tuesday.
For those aged 10 and 11, who are in their last year of primary school, obesity prevalence increased from 21% to 25.5%.
Overall, 27.7% of pupils were overweight or obese by the age of five, compared with 23% the year before.
The statistics for the 2020/21 academic year showed that by the end of primary school, 41% of children are either overweight or obese, which is up from 35.2% the year before.
The statistics also show far higher rates of obesity among boys compared with girls by year six, with 29.2% of boys obese compared to 21.7% of girls.
Dr. Max Davie, Officer for Health Improvement at the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, said: “this sharp increase in obesity levels across childhood is alarming.
“While lockdown may have been a key factor, we mustn’t assume that this year’s results are an aberration since there may be other factors, including mental health difficulties, which will take time to address.”
Officials said that the volume of data for 2020/21 was more limited than that for 2019/20.
The scheme normally weighs and measures children throughout the school year. But with schools closed for much of the pandemic, officials were only able to restart the programme in March 2021, a year after lockdown.
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Well done, Saint Boris. And you never saw that coming, when you caved to pressure, called your lockdowns (yes, YOUR lockdowns), and ordered people to stay at home. This is what YOU will be remembered for. (Slow clap)
When you control the media you can do anything. The spell they cast is just as strong as when the satanists broadcasted on tell-a-vision during 9/11.
Given your moniker, I thought you’d understand that the social credit score apps will ensure that Great Leader Johnson will be remembered for whatever MiniTruth decrees, if we know what’s good for us.
The fat slob sees nothing wrong with childhood obesity.
Parents have a lot to answer for here – it’s no surprise that the vast (pun intended) majority put on weight over lockdown. I was disciplined and kept up a regular running regime, it kept the weight off – it’s not hard to eat well and track what you eat – it’s tantamount to child abuse to feed (or allow them to eat) your little blob so much that they end up obese before they even have the chance to do it to themselves as adults.
Naturally there is no health and diet education in schools for fear of upsetting and/or hurting the kids feelings.
I was earlier getting my grocery shopping and overheard a woman in front of me packing up her shopping saying she ‘spoiled’ her children with food treats, especially during the pandemic. I was tempted to facepalm, but resisted the temptation.
Was she fat? Fat children generally have fat parents.
Do ugly children generally have ugly parents?
ugly is perceptive, fat is developed
“Beauty is only skin deep”
“That’s just something ugly people say!”
Four persons (so far) are offended by the truth.
Yep, spoil is the right word – (1) To impair or destroy the value or quality of; ruin. (2) To harm the character of (a child) by overindulgence or leniency. (3) To plunder; despoil
Under normal circumstances I’d agree with this, but it’s become clearer over the last two years exactly what working parents are up against. The ptb want the family to break down, so they make sure parents are pressured to work long hours leaving them no choice other than to leave kids in childcare. Then lockdown came along and they either had to leave their kids locked up in the house with food they could eat without harming themselves (junk), or they had to try and juggle everything as best they could, no Time for cooking or exercise. . So glad I chose not to have any, I don’t think I’d last long.
No parents are not to blame. The Government has made incredibly bad decisions. Just because you can go running doesn’t mean a parent with three children can do the same. During lockdown we saw the upper middle class enjoying their time with their children on expensive titanium bikes, expensive running gear and working from home on furlough.
We saw struggling key workers in the private sector juggling shift work to keep food supplies etc going. Their children were able to go to school but they were segregated and no real exercise was given due to teachers choosing not to work.
We saw parents cooped up in small houses and no garden being told they cannot exercise more than one hour a day…..do you seriously think a couple of six year olds will stay healthy on one hour a day. Depression kicked in. No money and no chance to go shopping with toddlers at home. Of course standards slide. Specially when depression is involved.
How arrogant of you to think it’s so easy to go running and enjoy good food. I am a grandmother and know how to cook. Most women today have never been taught because the establishment stopped Home Economics at school and only show expensive ‘lifestyle’ cookery programmes on tv. There is a dearth of information and real experience in the public sector today. They still use BMI known to be outdated and wrongly used in the first place. They still think fat is worse than sugar and we must all take a heavy exercise regime without once considering ability, body type, family situation etc. It’s always the devastating one size fits all system whereas everyone is unique and different.
Just the tip of the iceberg of harm caused by the idiotic groupthink that was lockdown. It must work, everyone does it!
Excess deaths will be interesting in the coming years, especially cause of death. Obesity will rocket placing more strain on the NHS, and for what? To kick the can down the road three month for a few thousand codgers at the end of their lives.
… while enabling the murder of thousands more old codgers in ‘care’ homes.
Indeed. I’m sure the effects of increased alcohol consumption amongst the adults will be similarly “alarming”.
Remind me what the primary risk for COVID is in otherwise healthy people?
“Remind me what the primary risk for COVID is in otherwise healthy people?”
Ask Boris, Rishi and Sajid – they all had Covid, and nearly died of it. Boris had to go into intensive care (luxury villa in Spain).
About 6 x worse outcomes for obese people.
Lord Tyrannus of Decima Street has just made the booster compulsory for ‘fully jabbed’ status. Your 2-jab is now obsolete, rendering you at risk of scorn and social annihilation, and so needs a software upgrade. Last one, promise!
Now’s the test: how many conform, how many resist?
Three jabs to fatten the social credit.
It’s the Klondike Gold Rush all over again!
Hope this is verifiable, I did a quick Duck Duck Go search but that turned up nothing.
It’s just as true as Javid claiming the vaccines have saved 40 million lives.
All these MicrosftRNA patch updates and the damn graphene oxide still won’t reboot my blood-clots.
It won’t end there either. The vaxxed are on a hamster wheel with no exit!
There is always a small door at the bottom of their pride.
I explained this to a class full of teenage victims who all seemed to believe they’d had the one and only shot anyone would ask of them! It’s astonishing!
Ah they’re young. Cut them some slack.
Its less forgivable that grown adults could not look into the future at the onset of the first lockdown and see the harms that would lie mere months down the road.
Will the population be decimated?
I think that any sane person with the smallest of brains could not fail to see the trail of death, damage and destruction of health, education, livelihoods and all the other things b**ge**d up by the shower that put it all in motion.
A work of genius, by people with no morals whatsoever.
The good thing about these ‘vaccines’ is that they leave all politicians pushing them, and members of SAGE, unharmed.
Good news for big pharma selling diabetes products. A whole new, younger clientele to pitch contracts for. Do the NHS still tender out contracts on Hancocks’ Whatsapp group?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC8546144/
Altogether, our study recommends additional caution when vaccinating people with pre-existing clinical conditions, including diabetes, electrolyte imbalances, renal dysfunction, and coagulation disorders.
I can remember as a child at school in the late 70s through the 80s to early 90s that coming across a fat, never mind obese child at school was rare, perhaps 1 in 20 or maybe 1 in 40. Now it seems a third of all children of school age are like this, as are so many adults. Note also that the same always appear to be engrossed (pun not intended) in their ‘smart’phones.
Me and my classmates were, outside of actually learning things in class or doing homework, were outside playing football or some other sport. I bet we wouldn’t have had lockdowns if the pandemic had occurred 30+ years ag, given no remote working/learning available.
Like for the Hong Kong flu of the 1960s (?) people of working age and children would’ve just got on with their lives whilst teh elderly and sick were (properly) cared for in isolation for a shorter time whilst herd immunity was achieved the ‘old fashioned way’, with few complaining about the death rate, often because those (outside the elderly or unfortunates to be sick not of their own vollition) who chose an unhealthy lifestyle could hardly blame anyone but themselves for making them more susceptible to a pandemic virus.
We wouldn’t have had lockdowns even ten years ago. No universal internet, no lockdown. Period.
Some may remember that back when the internet at home was a novelty, Tony Bliar “wanted every household to have the internet”. Now we know why, he foresaw this use. He is sorry that he’s not PM now, he would have loved to be the one declaring lockdown.
Back in the day we never had the internet we just about had a black and white -TV! What we did have were values and standards and loads of common sense! We also had lots of physical activity at school, no car so walking was essential. I’m glad I had the upbringing I had I wouldn’t have swapped it for today’s ‘freedoms!
What it all shows is how things have significantly gone backwards over the last 25 years, though mainly since Bliar was elected. I remember the day after the landslide Labour win in 1997 telling colleagues that this country would rue electing them and their ilk, and it would end in disaster.
I must admit being suprised at both how quick and the scale of how things went downhill, though I think it was because the Tories copied NuLab. The sad thing is we (likely Tory voters) enabled them by voting for them, although with the way the system works, what choice did we have?
What’s also amazing is how many people who I previously would call well educated / sensible have had the wool pulled over their eyes so easily over this time, or, perhaps more accurately, how they became so blase about the changes to how we were governed and to society, mainly because their little corner did not change that quickly and they still got their nice little treats like a latte, entertainment, a nice car and a holiday in the sun, etc, etc. Bread and circuses indeed.
It’s enlightening to read how another Conservative government under Harold MacMillan stoically and calmly dealt with the Asian flu in 1957/8.
The 1957-58 Asian Flu Pandemic: Why Did the UK Respond So Differently? – The Daily Sceptic
A different world back then. I also think that people back then were far more honest (including to themselves) and open, and had a willingness to do what’s needed for the benefit of everyone. Now it’s everyone for themselves and selfish acts to gain power, publicty and wealth.
A two-year-old with a diet coach.
I had a mother.
They have gone right out of fashion, haven’t they?
Most of the mothers are now blokes
The state is the Mother, the state is the Father,
It’s a Brave New World!
This is such a big issue & at the core of the argument against the Rashford amendment for the state to feed kids during holidays. Children are the responsibility of the parents. By extending the reach of the state into family life we do no one any favours.
Even the word “mother” is banned in some parts of the NHS. The term “birth parent” is preferred. Because who is to say that the person who carries a baby in “their” womb and who gives birth through “their” vagina isn’t a “man”? Apparently to say that men can’t give birth is halfway to introducing racial segregation on the buses. What are the rulers trying to tell us?
medical segregation on the buses will be ok?
Who ate all the pies?
Who ate all the pies?
You fat children
You fat children
Who ate all the pies?
Who gets more Covid?
The ones that ate all the pies.
Whom should we persecute?
The ones that ate all the pies.
Who should be locked up?
The ones that ate all the pies.
Who’s a fat bastard?
The one that tells all the lies.
I love your poetry Annie
Fewer and fewer pork pies though, I’d warrant.
Vaxpass for fuel now, in Slovenia:
https://hr.n1info.com/english/news/slovenia-drivers-must-present-covid-certificate-in-order-to-refuel-cars/
Are they all manned? Difficult to do at automated ones no?
Food purchases next?
Don’t worry, they’ve got an app for that!
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-pilot-to-help-people-eat-better-and-exercise-more
From January 2022, a pilot will see users wear wrist-worn devices that can generate personalised health recommendations, such as increasing their step count, eating more fruit and vegetables and decreasing portion size.
Users will collect points for these healthy behaviours which will unlock rewards, which could include gym passes, clothes or food vouchers and discounts for shops, cinema or theme park tickets.
Unfortunately it doesn’t say what will happen if you decide you want pizza, chips and a few beers instead!
You can guess – 100 points off your Social Credit Score!
How about….
Now sit down
Charge people who are more liekly to need NHS treatment because of their unhealthy lifestyles, more based on their lifestyles….
Nope lets subsidise poor health choices by fining people who work productively.
That’ll be the electric shock trigger! Useful things wrist-worn devices!
That, and an alarm that goes off when you enter Greggs
I think the Pig Dictator is setting a wonderful example to us all with his svelte athletic figure.
Imagine if you were Carrie…now that image is going to haunt you …
Too much information!!
It’s like the classic Steve McQueen B-movie, The Blob.
Only pink.
And wearing a blonde fright wig.
I think this is in the direction of the punishment suiting the crime. Sadly, they have dragged us all down into their circle of hell!
A parent at my grandchild’s school has told me on two occasions that she is suffering from long Covid. No! The real reason why she is so short of breath is the fact that she is carrying the equivalent weight of a second person inside her own skin.
Well said !
Long Covid?
No.
Long pig.
You’ll get in trouble if you reveal the Bullingdon Club’s menu.
It was worth it if just one child’s life was saved, oh wait a minute, like the government (joke of) thats not joined up thinking.
Completely unrelated aside, I’m sure, but have there been any radical changes in the demographics of the UK recently?
Who is your father: the state
Who is your mother: the NHS
What do you want to be? An orphan!
With apologies to an unnamed German officer cadet in1913
One of my kids recently showed me a Facebook post of a morbidly obese woman we know. She was demanding a 3rd vaccine, not yet available for her age. The total lack of self awareness of someone like this is breathtaking, no thought that she bears the slightest responsibility for her awful metabolic health (she’s a compulsive drinker of coca cola), but rather she thinks it’s the government’s responsibility to save her from herself.
But I bet it’s diet Coke! I used to know someone who thought that, by definition, drinking it would help them to lose weight!
Some sweeteners spike insulin more than sugar does.
The list of damage from these NPIs in general is immense – this is just but another one. And all were pretty well forseeable. What does that say about ‘public health‘ clowns?
… but the amount of self-righteous virtue signalling here about the obese isn’t very attractive, either.
Care home residents are a very isolated and weak group, and they were slaughtered in large numbers last year.
Okay, so which other demographics are weak, largely viewed by the authorities as cattle, and so on?
Working class children – or more precisely, children in the poorest third or half of the working class – have to be high on the list, the children sometimes known as “FSM” by the “experts”, but “offspring of non-graduate parents”, or “obese or at risk of obesity”, would be other terms that might be used. “Untouchables”, in other words. No, readers, the system does not enable them to “reach their full potential”. It does the opposite.
There was something highly peculiar about the promotion of “feed poor children in schools during the vacations”, an idea which as far as I am aware had never previously been mooted.
Watch this space.
Never mind the kids, I am about 10% heavier than before the pandemic.
I put this down to comfort eating due to the stress of discovering that my own government is actively trying to kill me and my family.
The fat, disheveled slob probably sees nothing wrong with childhood obesity.
The National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP)is a disgrace, They still use the outdated BMI compared to tables per age group and fail to take into account differences in children and outliers such as some children being a head height taller than many others, some children are very petite etc.
Last week there was an article in one of the papers where the parents received a ‘Your child is Fat’ letters from the NCMP and the picture of a normal girl for her age – definitely not overweight.
Why do they still use this outdated BMI method?
Bio-Electrical Impedance Analysis (BEIA) is a much better method to use. https://www.doylestownhealth.org/services/nutrition/bio-electrical-impedance-analysis-bia-body-mass-analysis
The NHS claims that BEIA is not a reliable method, however BMI is definitely not a reliable method,
Can we trust anything the NHS says? The Covid issue opened our eyes with regard to how the NHS failed to consider viable methods / treatments – just look at how they messed around with vitamin D trials for Covid prevention, Ivermectin, ventilators that kill, etc
Everything the Government does has unintended but devastating consequences. Whoever thinks that anyone in Government is an expert on anything needs to think again.
we need Government completely out of our lives. We need to take responsibility for ourselves and our communities. Politicians and public sector advisers are a waste of time and money. Get rid of them and our health will improve, corruption levels will drop, we will all be better off financially.
Obesity not necessarily caused by bad diet/lack of proper exercise?
There is evidence that some vaccines cause auto immune disease including diabetes.
Diabetes can lead to obesity – not the other way round.
An explosion of obesity started, quelle surprise, in the USA correlating with mass mandated vaccines from the early 90’s.
We’re catching up.
Big Food + Big Pharma = Big profits and big people.