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<blockquote data-quote="Mr_Pot" data-source="post: 1923910" data-attributes="member: 216415"><p>Last week I was stuck in traffic in Maidenhead just at the time when a local state comprehensive school finished and several hundred children of all ages filed past my car. The school has a catchment area which includes expensive houses but also quite a lot of social housing, also I noticed a few children of Afro-Caribbean and a lot of South Asian descent so the school has a cross section of types. Having recently read an article on childhood obesity I watched them as they passed but <u>I did not see one child</u> <u>who was obviously overweight or obese</u>. So if it is true that one in three children in secondary schools are overweight or obese there must be some areas where the schools have a very high percentage to make up the average. I can't see that the problem can be genetic, there are no genes specific to Maidenhead. It seems to me that a study to compare the lifestyles and diets of children at the opposite ends of this spectrum would at least highlight the cause of the problem, if not solve it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mr_Pot, post: 1923910, member: 216415"] Last week I was stuck in traffic in Maidenhead just at the time when a local state comprehensive school finished and several hundred children of all ages filed past my car. The school has a catchment area which includes expensive houses but also quite a lot of social housing, also I noticed a few children of Afro-Caribbean and a lot of South Asian descent so the school has a cross section of types. Having recently read an article on childhood obesity I watched them as they passed but [U]I did not see one child[/U] [U]who was obviously overweight or obese[/U]. So if it is true that one in three children in secondary schools are overweight or obese there must be some areas where the schools have a very high percentage to make up the average. I can't see that the problem can be genetic, there are no genes specific to Maidenhead. It seems to me that a study to compare the lifestyles and diets of children at the opposite ends of this spectrum would at least highlight the cause of the problem, if not solve it. [/QUOTE]
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