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To: Jeremy Hunt, Health Secretary
Take action against childhood obesity
It's time to publish the Public Health England review into reducing sugar consumption, stop sitting on the advice of experts from Action on Sugar and deliver the child obesity strategy promised for this year. This is about the health of our children not the health of the bank balances of the food and drink industry. What are you waiting for?
Why is this important?
Every year one in five children in this country leave primary school clinically obese and set up for a lifetime of poor health and social and psychological issues. Without action thousands more will join them.
Jeremy Hunt says this is a "great scandal" and in his first speech after being reappointed Health Secretary following the general election he said "It is something we cannot say that we accept".
But far from leading the charge to improve the health of our children, our Health Secretary is sitting on the findings of a crucial review from Public Health England into reducing sugar consumption. 18 months ago Hunt asked Action on Sugar for a plan to prevent childhood obesity. With the help of their global experts they provided a plan with just seven actions but so far Hunt has done nothing.
The government promised a child obesity strategy this year. The clock is ticking and every day more of the youngest and most vulnerable children tip the scales into clinical obesity.
Sign this petition and together we can force Jeremy Hunt to publish the Public Health England review, respond to the plan presented by Action on Sugar and finally take action on childhood obesity.
Jeremy Hunt says this is a "great scandal" and in his first speech after being reappointed Health Secretary following the general election he said "It is something we cannot say that we accept".
But far from leading the charge to improve the health of our children, our Health Secretary is sitting on the findings of a crucial review from Public Health England into reducing sugar consumption. 18 months ago Hunt asked Action on Sugar for a plan to prevent childhood obesity. With the help of their global experts they provided a plan with just seven actions but so far Hunt has done nothing.
The government promised a child obesity strategy this year. The clock is ticking and every day more of the youngest and most vulnerable children tip the scales into clinical obesity.
Sign this petition and together we can force Jeremy Hunt to publish the Public Health England review, respond to the plan presented by Action on Sugar and finally take action on childhood obesity.
