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Si vous aviez des doutes que notre société obsédée du gras ne va pas en poussant les limites de la raison et ne risque pas de produire une génération encore plus obsédée, je vous laisse lire ce qui suit, pris ici:

Professor to hold toddlers fat camp
By Claire Lomax

A weight loss camp for children is to hold its first fat camp' for under-fives - and it will all be captured on film.

Paul Gately, Professor of Exercise and Obesity at Leeds Metropolitan University, is so concerned about the growing rates of overweight children in Britain, that he is designing a camp for pre-school.

A growing epidemic of childhood obesity in Bradford was revealed in shocking figures published in September which found 11 per cent of boys in reception classes were overweight and 12 per cent were classified as obese, while 11 per cent of girls were overweight and ten per cent were obese.

It is the first time every reception class child in the Bradford district in the school year 2005/06 has been weighed and measured.

Year six pupils are also weighed and measured and the exercise will be repeated each year to keep track of the scale of the problem.

Prof Gately has been running summer camps for overweight teenagers at Woodhouse Grove School in Apperley Bridge, Bradford, for eight years.

His approach has helped more than 1,000 children lose weight.

ITV will be following his progress for a documentary to be broadcast next year.

He is offering free places to families who would like to take part.

Prof Gately said: "The biggest problem is that parents often don't recognise that their child is overweight. Seventy per cent of parents of overweight children would identify their children with normal weight and 30 per cent of parents with obese children think of their children as just right - so there's a huge perception problem.

"It's imperative that parents know how to spot the signs of an overweight toddler."

The scientific way to identify if a toddler is overweight or obese is to use the Body Mass Index in which the child's weight in kilograms is divided by their height in metres squared.

A child with a BMI of 17 is overweight and a BMI of 19.5 is obese.

Prof Gately said a range of factors contributed to children becoming overweight at such a young age - and isn't necessarily what they eat.

"Obesity is a risk if a child is sleeping less than ten-and-a-half hours a night and watching more than eight hours of television a week," he said.

"They are at ten times greater risk of becoming obese if both parents are obese. A lot of people will be worried about food but it is the range of environmental factors that contribute, rather than food.

"We will be helping parents understand the different issues. It is not a diet or exercise programme it is about sensible lifestyle changes. This is going to be a great opportunity to not only do something for the children we will be working with but it will also inform many millions of people who can watch it on television."

Parents interested in finding out more should contact olivia.hamblin@itv.com or call (0207) 633 2596.

Le fameux professeur à aidé plus de 1000 jeunes à perdre du poids? Comme si c'était difficile! Je peux faire du poids à n'importe qui, z'avez qu'a me les envoyer, je connais toutes les méthodes, scientifiquement en vogue ou pas, et elles marchent toutes, surtout pour les premières fois et pendant un certain temps.

Mais faire maigrir sainement sans infliger à des enfants des obsessions et des troubles alimentaires qui dureront toute leur vie, à un age ou ils sont si réceptifs, c'est une autre paire de manche et jusqu'ici, plutot que d'avouer notre ignorance, on persiste avec des méthodes qui ne fonctionnent pas.

Voilà qu'on s'attaque à des bébés. (!!!)

Mais l'obésité, c'est la faute aux parents, évidemments, pas à ceux qui rendent tout le monde obsédés en aggravant le problème.

Ce n'est pas la fin du monde d'être potelé en étant petit. Depuis qu'on en fait un drame, les taux augmentent sans arret. Peut-être, oui, peut-être qu'il y a un problème dans l'approche.

Mais je ne suis pas étonnée, c'est dans l'air du temps de prendre les grands moyens pour tuer la mouche du surpoids les yeux bandés d'ignorance en détruisant la maison au complet, laissant ainsi libre accès à toutes les mouches qui voudront s'infiltrer ensuite.

Le pire c'est que ce sentiment d'urgence se base souvent sur des biais scientifiques. La science, c'est comme la bible, sans jugement on peut lui faire dire ce que l'on veut. Pour des nouvelles réjouissantes du genre et un meilleure éclairage sur le biais de plusieurs études scientifiques, c'est sur Junkfood Science qu'il faut aller...