Professor Neena Modi, who became RCPCH president last month, said that although the Conservative manifesto pledges to address childhood obesity, she is concerned about “a lack of detail” on how it plans to do so.
Speaking exclusively to CYP Now, she said she wants to see the government adopt a strong approach regarding food industry regulation and the way it is advertised.
According to data presented to the European congress on obesity in Prague earlier this month, nearly one in four British children under the age of five are overweight or obese – the second-highest proportion of overweight children out of the 28 countries that provided data.
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