{"id":10406,"date":"2016-03-22T10:13:12","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T10:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/?p=10406"},"modified":"2016-03-22T10:13:12","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T10:13:12","slug":"cardiff-kids-least-likely-to-be-overweight-says-welsh-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2016\/03\/22\/cardiff-kids-least-likely-to-be-overweight-says-welsh-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardiff kids least likely to be overweight, says Welsh survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_10407\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10407\" style=\"width: 493px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-22-at-09.46.50.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10407\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10407\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-22-at-09.46.50.png\" alt=\"Cardiff &amp; the Vale of Glamorgan has the lowest levels of obesity among children in Wales\" width=\"493\" height=\"574\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10407\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10407\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-22-at-09.46.50.png\" alt=\"Cardiff &amp; the Vale of Glamorgan has the lowest levels of obesity among children in Wales\" width=\"493\" height=\"574\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> <strong>Cardiff and the Vale has the lowest level of obesity among Welsh children<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nCHILDREN living in Cardiff are the least likely to become overweight or obese compared with the rest of Wales, a new survey has found.<br \/>\nThe Child Measurement Programme found that just 21% of children living in the capital were obese, compared with nearly a third in Anglesey.<br \/>\nThe Welsh Government study found that, contrary to popular belief, children living in more rural areas are more likely to be obese.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-22-at-09.48.48.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10409\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10409 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-22-at-09.48.48.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"302\" height=\"252\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10409 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-22-at-09.48.48.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"302\" height=\"252\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><br \/>\nCouncillor Sue Lent, the Cabinet member for Early Years, Children and Families, said: &#8220;We&#8217;re obviously pleased that some of the work we&#8217;re doing on healthy eating is paying off but there&#8217;s clearly still some way to go.&#8221;<br \/>\nThere is also a strong relationship between levels of obesity and deprivation \u2013 in the least deprived areas of Wales the obesity rate among children was 22.2%, whereas the most deprived areas had a rate of 28.5%.<br \/>\nThe survey also found that children of black origin were more likely than other ethnicities to suffer from weight-related problems, with Asian children the least likely to be overweight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHILDREN living in Cardiff are the least likely to become overweight or obese compared with the rest of Wales, a new survey has found. 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