OBESE children will get free scales under a new NHS weight loss bid — but won’t be able to see the readings.
Hiding the figures aims to spare kid’s feelings and stop their obsessing over numbers.
Instead the data will be uploaded directly to a clinic.Doctors will view progress graphs on an app and send motivational messages to help .
The Alliance’s Katharine Jenner hailed it as a “compassionate”;; approach.
Prof Simon Kenny, at NHS England, called it game-changing.
One in five by age 11.
Prof Kenny said: “This helps our specialists keep track of children’s without them needing to leave home.”;;
Critics say current NHS checks on kids in reception and again in Year Six can embarrass chubby children.
The at-home monitoring of the most obese has been trialled on 350 families in England and will be extended to thousands more.
Tam Fry, from the National Obesity Forum, said: “Some people will think this is nanny state. But people are so confused about weight and BMI in children that this might be a better way to go.”;;
, of the Institute for Economic Affairs, said: “It sounds like a patronising waste of — sending people banal advice to eat less, as if they don’t know that already.”;;
- SWEDISH experts found added to a programme for chubby kids meant they.
