The study, Tackling Childhood Obesity within Schools: Lessons Learnt From School-based Interventions, carried out by the Centre for British Teachers, calls for government action to promote healthy lifestyles in families.
The report's authors suggest this could be achieved through the promotion of breastfeeding and reform of welfare schemes so that poorer families are encouraged to have adequate diets, for example, through healthy food vouchers. It also suggests tighter regulation of the food and drinks industries and associated advertising, and more encouragement of active lifestyles.
The study found that walking school buses, extended PE lessons, and play-based methods of conveying nutritional information can all have a positive effect on children's health but concluded they have little effect unless healthy habits are maintained in the home.
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