Over a third of children aged 10 11 in England are overweight or obese
More than a third of children aged 10 11 are overweight or obese, national figures in England have shown.1 Child health experts now describe the level of childhood obesity in the United Kingdom as a "state of emergency." The figures for 2015 16 come from the national child measurement programme, which measures height and weight in more than a million children in reception class (aged 4 5) and in year six (aged 10 11) in schools in England each year. The latest measurements showed that the prevalence of obesity in year six children had increased from 19.1%
British Medical Journal