Children: Obesity

Debate between Baroness Walmsley and Lord Winston
Tuesday 12th January 2016

(9 years, 1 month ago)

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Baroness Walmsley Portrait Baroness Walmsley
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My Lords—

Lord Winston Portrait Lord Winston (Lab)
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My Lords, given that homo sapiens is a species that is programmed to eat carbohydrate and fat, what estimate have the Government made of how much childhood obesity is due to epigenetic factors rather than simply eating sugar and carbohydrate later on in life? Might this not be programming earlier in the generation perhaps as the result of previous generations’ environment? This is an essential point in understanding obesity.

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