Meet Britain’s most overweight 10-year-old tipping the scales at 158kg

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The girl, from Hounslow, West London, was 4ft 10in tall and 24st 5lb, while an 11-year-old boy from Manchester, who was just 4ft 4in, was similarly hefty at 23st 11lb.

Statistics from the NHS also showed one in three children were overweight and up to 20% were obese.

Tam Fry, spokesman for the National Obesity Forum , said: “We have come to accept that 26% of adults in the UK are obese but we should be outraged that 20% of children are, too.”

Yesterday’s figures came from the Government’s National Child Measurement Programme, which records the height and weight of every reception class and Year Six pupil in England.

The data is used to calculate a body mass index, which for the 10 and 11-year-old worked out at 71 and 84 respectively.

A BMI of between 18.5 and 25 is considered healthy, while anyone with a BMI over 40 is ­considered morbidly obese.

Professor Mitch Blair, of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, warned being so heavy in childhood had serious consequences later on.

He said: “Being so severely overweight at such a young age has clear physical health implications including a higher risk of diabetes, heart disease and joint problems.

“In addition, there can be serious psychological repercussions – teenage years are tough enough without the extra burden of being obese.”

The statistics listed seven children recorded as weighing more than 20 stone between 2006 and 2012.

Soaring numbers of youngsters are suffering complications linked to their weight, with 30% classed as obese when they left primary school.

A recent study by Imperial College found hospital admission rates for health problems caused by obesity have quadrupled in a decade.

Despite this, schools have been urged by the NHS to tone down their letters to parents informing them their children are obese.

Ahead of the next weigh-in in September, schools have been urged to use language which is “non-judgmental”.

They will also take out references to obesity causing heart disease and cancer in later life.

The letters used to say: “Your child’s result is in the very overweight range. Doctors call this clinically obese.”

Read more: Mirror News

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