Fat camps bid to get kids fit
Published Date:
15 May 2008
By David Coates
"FAT camp"-style clubs are being held across Lancashire to tackle the county's obesity problem.
The calorie-busting sessions are targeting seven to 13 year olds in Preston, Leyland and Chorley.
Figures showed more than a quarter of children in central Lancashire are overweight or obese.
In Preston, it is predicted that more than 13 per cent of boys and nearly nine per cent of girls aged two to 15 years old will be overweight by 2010.
Kids attend two-hour after-school sessions twice a week with their parents for 10 weeks to learn how to eat healthily and exercise more.
Jonathan Scott, of organisers Mind, Exercise, Nutrition...Do it!, said the course at West View Leisure Centre in Ribbleton, Preston, was a "great success."
He said: "This is about taking a direct approach to the problem of obesity in places like Preston, Leyland and Chorley; not pussy-footing around the issue.
"We have to get the parents along because they have the buying power to decide what their children eat, so it is getting to the route of the problem.
"Our dream is to have a MEND programme in every community throughout the country and these three are the start to that."
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15 May 2008 9:26 AM
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