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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


They would be described as "the skinny runts" because they were not getting the right food, she added.

"When I go to my constituency, in fact when I walk around, you can almost now tell somebody's background by their weight," Soubry said. "Obviously, not everybody who is overweight comes from deprived backgrounds but that's where the propensity lies."

The Child Poverty Action Group, a British charity working to alleviate poverty and social exclusion, however said cuts in government support for the low paid and unemployed would make obesity worse.
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