Brit Kids To Get 'Fat' Report Cards!

Britain has come up with new plan to tackle childhood obesity, the parents of all kids' aged between 4 and five years and 10 and 11 will get written notification of their children's height and weight, after a leaked study found that the weight problem among Brit kids is worse than previously anticipated.

The scheme will be introduced at the start of the new academic year in September, when the so called ‘fat report’ will be automatically sent to all parents when their child is five and again at age 10. The report will be sent with an advice pack on healthy eating and exercise.

The new figures show that 1 in ten kids aged between four and 5 are obese and another 13% are overweight. And, 17.5% of 10 to 11 year olds are obese while another 14.2% are measured as overweight.

The UK’s Department of Health said, "The results are not supposed to be warning letters. It's an important programme to tackle child obesity. Without accurate data local areas cannot plan the health services they need."

According to the World Cancerdefine Research Fund (WCRF), the rising numbers of obese children in Britain are feared to be a health ‘time bomb’. The obesity levels in Britain is highest in Europe.

Earlier, if parents wanted the information of their child's height and weight, they had to ask from the National Child Measurement Programme, but that was optional so many parents would just ignore the problem. Past year, many parents didn’t send their kids to school on the weighing day, meaning the alarming figures could still underestimate the full extent of obesity levels.

British kids are among the most overweight in the world. There are approximately 1 million obese children under the age of 16 in Britain only. The British Medical Association (BMA) warns that by 2020 as many as one fifth of boys and one third of girls will be obese which means they will have a shorter life expectancy than their parents.

A rise in obesity has lead to an increase in childhood diabetes and other health problems such as cardiovascular diseases, osteoarthritis and 6 different types of cancer, including post menopausal breast cancer, pancreasdefine, kidney and womb cancers.

A latest British study conducted by researchers from University College and the Institute of Psychiatry, at King's College, in London, found that kids carrying the first gene linked to obesity find it harder than others to tell when they are full.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the number of overweight children in US has jumped up to three times in the past thirty years.