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I don’t think that alcohol is the cause of obesity in primary school kids.

So you’re saying that there is a problem with obesity in kids then, and that the NHS is correct in monitoring them and informing their parents in the hope that they might start to look at the ingredients in the food they’re giving them, eg breakfast cereal?

You’ve changed my mind. I guess that the paediatrician’s that have devised the healthy BMI range for kids that has been used in the NHS’s national child measurement scheme just don’t know what they’re talking about, and it’s all just puppy fat that they’ll grow out of. Obesity crisis? What...

There are occasional reasons that may explain an overweight kid, but for primary aged children, the reason that they have a BMI in the unhealthy range is the same in the majority of cases: They’re fat. As with adults, oberweight has become the norm for children these days. As a result of their...

The are far more women suffering from conditions related to obesity than anorexia. And so they should, as fat kids grow into obese adults. BMI is usually quite accurate for primary aged kids as you don’t tend to get many 9 year old body builders.

This is utter bollocks. Ennis’s BMI is around 20, which is well in the healthy range, even allowing for the fact that she was quite muscular when she competed. The controversy around her weight prior to 2012 was that a senior U.K. Athletics coach (not her coach, Tony Minichiello) suggested that...