Children, all around U K, will go for a weight evaluation at the age of four and ten. The parents will get warning in case of overweighing kids are found. However, the critics termed it as a completely misguided and autocratic decision. They say that the government cannot fix the size of the children. However, the Department of Health has already issued guidance to NHS trusts on the new weight checks.



Thirty-three per cent of boys and thirty-five per cent of girls are estimated to be too ‘heavy’. The school nurses will carry out the first checks this year and it will design a ‘fat map’ of the U K. The data will help to scrutinize the Government’s progress for its target to halt obesity increase among kids under 11 by 2010.





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