Source: telanganatoday.com<\/p>\n
London<\/strong>: Childhood obesity is on the rise and in order to tackle the issue London\u2019s Child Obesity Taskforce has set out a number of measures that it will focus on reducing the number of overweight children and promote a healthy lifestyle, such as drinking plenty of water and being physically active.<\/p>\n According to the official data, nearly 40 per cent of London\u2019s children aged 10 or 11 are either obese or overweight, reported\u00a0TheMayor.eu.<\/p>\n The alarming statistics have pushed the UK\u2019s capital to act upon the current situation. London mayor Sadiq Khan has specially assigned a Child Obesity Task Force for the issue.<\/p>\n Regarding childhood obesity, Khan said that \u201cIt\u2019s shocking that our city has such high levels of child obesity and that our children\u2019s health depends so much on who they are and where they live.\u201d He noted that everyone has a \u201crole to play\u201d to tackle the health crises.<\/p>\n \u201cWe all have a role to play if we are to tackle this health crisis \u2013 so Londoners\u2019 lives can be improved, reducing the burden on our overstretched health and care service. That\u2019s why I\u2019ve already set out proposals cracking down on takeaways near schools and increasing the number of water fountains in the capital,\u201d Khan added.<\/p>\n The independent task force has set out 10 ambitions aimed at tackling the issue of childhood obesity, with calls to action including ending child poverty in the city, making free water more available, and restricting takeaway and fast-food restaurants, among many others.<\/p>\n The first of the ambitions is to put an end to child poverty in the city. The task force wants the Mayor to set out the minimum wage of the capital and for more businesses to start offering the \u201cliving wage\u201d.<\/p>\n The plan has also envisioned steps focused at those looking after youngsters like providing support to women to breastfeed for longer by increasing the number of support groups for mothers and improving data on breastfeeding.<\/p>\n It also aims to create food training programmes for professionals like chefs and caterers working with children.<\/p>\n The plan also enlists the launch of a campaign aimed at supporting parents of young children.<\/p>\n Another ambition focuses on the things that children consume including making free water available everywhere around the city.<\/p>\n The task force also aims to restrict fast-food restaurants to sell products when unaccompanied children are likely to visit and offering companies incentives to do so.<\/p>\n The plan also focuses on harnessing the power of investment to create good food. The task force wants the city to create a good food investment fund which will help the producers in offering healthy options at decent prices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[47,1807,140,1806,51],"class_list":["post-1754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weight-loss-gain","tag-childhood","tag-drinking-plenty","tag-healthy","tag-london","tag-obesity"],"yoast_head":"\n