School children from lower socioeconomic areas are one-and-a-half times more likely to be overweight or obese compared with children living in wealthier areas, a new study has found. The study of primary school-aged children also found almost one in three children aged six to 12 years are either overweight or obese. Study author Rachel Sutherland said: ‘Of huge concern was that by age six and seven, around 30 per cent of these kids were already overweight or obese.
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