Obesity obsession 'means other weight problems missed'

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-22479045

The issue of underweight school children is being missed because of an "obsession" with tackling obesity, a group of researchers has claimed.

An Essex University study, presented at the European Congress on Obesity and involving 10,000 children aged nine to 16, found one in 17 was too thin.

Researcher Dr Gavin Sandercock said weighing too little was more damaging to health than weighing too much.

He warned that society was focused almost exclusively on obesity.

[Stuart G]

1. Outstanding Post...thanks and I would like to add my opinion

Anorexia and Bulimia are major problems in this country, right now. At high schools everywhere there are students deliberately starving themselves to .."look good"..It is very very sad.