BARBADIAN CHILDREN are eating junk and drinking sweet drinks and it is showing around their midsections.
These were the findings, said a health promotions officer in the Ministry of Health, of a school-based study done four years ago.
Donna Barker was speaking to the WEEKEND NATION as the Barbados Childhood Obesity Prevention Programme hosted a Children Making SmartChoices programme entitled Chop Bad Habit at the Collymore Rock Church of the Nazarene yesterday.
Admitting that she did not have the figures to hand, Barker said the 2012 study looked at different practices, healthy or unhealthy, of school children between 13 to 15 years. (HLE)
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