Obesity epidemic exaggerated: report
Australia's childhood obesity epidemic has been exaggerated and is only increasing in lower-income families. New research has called into question whether the millions of dollars being allocated for prevention programs should be better targeted, a News Ltd newspaper reports. The research questions whether money should be targeted at the highest-risk groups, rather than focused on the general population. The findings are based on measurements taken from thousands of Australian children in 2000 and 2006 in two nationally representative samples.