Child obesity as with adult obesity has felt like a rising tidy. Very hard to hold the tide back that so often lead to poor health and reduce life chances.

But the U.S. despite the prevailing view we have of it all being fast food, fizzy drink etc has turned that tide. A new report from the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention has found child obesity falling in 19 of 43 states from 2008-2011 in the poorest pre-school children. These are the children from the cohort most likely to be obese. Only three US states had an increase in child obesity. 

This compares really well with the period 2003-2008 when obesity increased in 24 states and decreased in 9.

Sadly in the UK we’re lagging behind. Child obesity is reported by the British Heart Foundation to have risen 1995-2011 from 11% to 17% of boys and 12% to 16% for girls. 

How do you think we can push back our UK tide of obesity?