Child Obesity - childhood obesity a public health issue. And How To Lose Weight With Hypnotherapy and Hypnosis For Weight Management

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"The UK Public Health Association (UKPHA) is appalled that some UK paediatricians are proposing that doctors call in social workers to deal with obesity, or even that obese children should be taken into care. This typical response from clinically-based specialists shows a horrifying ignorance of the underlying causes of obesity –which has its roots in the social, environmental and economic fabric of society. This major public health issue cannot be dismissed as merely a failure of parental care. 

The UKPHA wholeheartedly supports the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health in their call to treat childhood obesity as a public health issue rather than a child protection issue.

Attempting to tackle the issue by sending in social workers, or taking children into care, can only add to the problems already faced by families. Although parents have a responsibility to provide a healthy life-style for their children, the wider obesogenic environment in which they live has a large impact on the choices that parents may make. 

Dr Heema Shukla, Chair of the UKPHA’s Special Interest Group on Food and Nutrition, argues that 

“Doctors as Practice Based Commissioners should look to commission a multi-component, structured intervention programme to support families with obese children to change their life-styles. 

‘This would accord with the guidance on obesity issued by NICE, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, which suggests a multi-component intervention that includes diet, behavioural change and physical activity. 

‘Social workers as a profession are not equipped with the necessary skills nor trained to deal with obesity. Currently structured programmes that incorporate these guidelines developed by experts in the field are available for the NHS to support families with obese children.”

The simultaneous news that over 150 children have vanished whilst in the care of South East local authorities alone over the last three years is a stark reminder that taking children away from families –even where there may be genuine child protection issues– does not solve the problem. Bowing to a practice employed by a few clinicians unable to grasp the wider and complex issues related to obesity can be damaging to the profession, the family and in particular the child. When will common sense prevail?"

14 June 2007, UKPHA

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