Dieticians 'may have to educate people from a younger age'
Wednesday 24th February 2010
It may be the case that people with dietician jobs have to begin targeting people with food advice from an earlier age, comments made by one expert suggest.
According to Dean Marshall, chairman of the British Medical Association's Scottish General Practitioner's Committee, the number of overweight people in the UK is concerning.
He remarked: "What we are suggesting is that we have much more focus on children, ensuring that they have the right lifestyle information and don't actually end up obese."
Prevention is as good as, if not better than, cure, Dr Marshall went on to claim.
He made his comments following the release of figures by the University of Oxford, which indicated that the annual total number of fatalities in which obesity was a contributing factor has increased every year since 1995.
It has gone up by an average of 7.5 per cent for men and four per cent for women, the team found.
Written by Megan Smith
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