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Poor families' kids are fatter: British minister

London: British Health Minister Anna Soubry has said that children from poor families can be identified by how fat they are.The minister said when she was at school, pupils from deprived backgrounds tended to be

IANS Updated on: January 24, 2013 13:21 IST


The culture of "TV dinners" has eroded traditional structures of family life and led some homes to dispense with a dining table entirely, the minister said, adding it was heartbreaking that the poorest in the country were among the most at risk of obesity.

"A third of our children leave primary school overweight or obese," she said.

"When I was at school, you could tell the demography of children by how thin they were. You could see by looking at their eyes."

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