Obesity in young people is the focus of the second in this weeklong current affairs series on family life. Obesity in young people is reaching epidemic proportions, doubling in the past decade.
Angela is worried about her overweight 13-year-old daughter, Adele. She believes Adele is stealing food from the cupboards, and when she searches her room she finds chocolate bar wrappers, empty tins of tuna fish and an old Chinese takeaway box.
Zak, 11, is being bullied at school because of his weight. His mother, a diabetic, is concerned he too will develop diabetes. Zak spends his free time playing video games and eats up to five packets of crisps a day.
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