Government’s approach to dealing with New Zealand’s childhood obesity epidemic.

I am sure many of you found recent comments in the UK Chief Medical Officer’s annual report as chilling as I did.

He said the reality of the obesity epidemic would mean many parents would outlive their children.

We do not want that to happen here. We are facing a child obesity epidemic in New Zealand, but we can still do something about it.

That is why it is so important to be part of a positive symposium like this that aims to “be part of the solution”, to stop laying blame, and to plan the way forward.

I think it is great to get in on the ground floor, to plan for the future, not the let the future hit is.
I want to thank Professor Ian Watson, the Principal of Massey University’s Albany Campus, the Symposium Coordinator Rose Carr, and all the other leading health, food, industry and media experts who have willingly become involved in the spirit of this Symposium.

We......

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Title: Obesity
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