The British Medical Journal found a year-long education programme that successfully cut the level of obesity in children by teaching them about healthy eating and discouraging fizzy drinks was no longer effective three years after the intervention came to an end.
The findings were due to be released yesterday (9 October) and detailed how a healthy eating project, known as Ditch the Fizz, ran with children aged between seven and 11 years old in six junior schools in 2001.
Ditch the Fizz focused on discouraging children from consuming fizzy drinks and promoted a healthy diet through four extra health education classes spread over the year. At the end of the study the authors found "significant" differences in the proportion of overweight children in the control group, who didn't take part, and those children in the intervention group.
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