Sydney Morning Herald reports:
A GROUNDBREAKING study produces the first conclusive evidence that excessive eating - not lack of exercise - is behind rocketing levels of childhood obesity, challenging the Federal Government's refusal to restrict food advertising aimed at children.It's amazing what you can achieve when you put down that fork.
The study of 5407 students from 90 public schools in NSW, commissioned by the State Government, contradicts the "urban myth" that children are increasingly inactive and hooked on sedentary pastimes. They are exercising much harder than in the 1990s, and yet still stack on more weight.
That leaves over-eating as the main culprit
