date:Oct 31, 2012
of childhood obesity. Despite only running for three years, an evaluation report has been published showing the effect of the campaign up to now.
The scheme is focused on reducing the number of children in the EU who are overweight. The figure stands at 22 million (with 5.1 million obese). It has been estimated that with the current EU trend, another 1.2 million children could be overweight each year with 300,000 obese. Scientific research has shown overweight problems occur more frequently a