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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/23-of-fouryearolds-overweight.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Almost a quarter of four to five-year-olds are overweight or obese, figures show" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-23-of-fouryearolds-overweight.jpg" alt="Almost a quarter of four to five-year-olds are overweight or obese, figures show"/></a></p>
<p>Almost a quarter (23%) of four to five-year-olds are overweight or obese, figures have shown.</p>
<p>The figure rises to one in three (33%) of children in their final year of primary school (aged 10 to 11).</p>
<p>Wednesday&#8217;s report, from the NHS Information Centre, found there has been barely any change in childhood obesity rates over the last few years.</p>
<p>Of children in the younger reception year, 14% of boys are overweight and another 11% are obese, while 13% of girls are overweight and 9% are obese.</p>
<p>In Year 6, the last year of primary school, 15% of boys and girls are overweight, and 20% of boys are obese alongside 17% of girls.</p>
<p>The data is taken from more than a million children (91% of eligible pupils), as part of the Government&#8217;s National Child Measurement Programme.</p>
<p>The scheme has been criticised for being voluntary, with research suggesting that some overweight and obese children &#8220;opt out&#8221; of being weighed and measured, potentially skewing the results.</p>
<p>The report found that children in urban towns and cities were much more likely to be overweight than those living in more rural areas.</p>
<p>Tim Straughan, chief executive of The NHS Information Centre, said: &#8220;This is the fifth year of the programme and participation in the study continues to increase with more than a million children taking part.</p>
<p>&#8220;The study suggests that weight problems continue to be far worse for older children than for younger children, with one in three Year 6 pupils being either overweight or obese and nearly one in five obese.&#8221;</p>
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