Measuring waistlines
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Don't worry, apparently there is a pill that will cure obesity.
Obesity org chair calls for measuring waistlines of 5-year-olds, fining employers for larger workers
National Obesity Forum Chair Tam Fry said it's 'quite right' to urge annual waist measurements be taken for children as soon as they begin school
It's no secret – obesity is the most prevalent epidemic affecting the Western world, but one obesity organization leaders' idea to curtail the problem has some people raising their eyebrows.
"[It's] quite right to urge that waist measurements be now taken annually from the time a child first goes to school," Tam Fry, chair of the National Obesity Forum in the U.K., told The Telegraph.
Fry's comment referenced guidance published by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice) in April, which urged everyone aged five and up to conduct waist measurements to ensure the number is less than half their height.
