Dr Andrew Hill, a senior lecturer in Behavioural Sciences at Leeds University, said: "An obese teen is not going to drop dead. The immediate need is psycho-social. If we are trying to drive change we tend to go for things that will kill us instead of things that make us unhappy."
In research with children who have been teased because of their weight, Hill found that victimisation was reported by 14 per cent of 12-year-olds and 18 per cent of nine-year-olds.
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