The World Heart Federation says that 22 million children worldwide are overweight and that obesity rates could lead the way to a global epidemic of heart disease.
According to Dr John Reilly, from Glasgow University, childhood obesity in the UK has reached epidemic levels with serious implications for the health of the population.
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