These rebranded babies weigh more than 5kg at birth, while the UK average is 3.4kg. Last June, a woman gave birth to the UK’s heaviest baby girl, weighing 6.5 kg. As for the biggest baby boy, he weighed 7.1 kg when he was born in 2013 in Gloucester. Why are we sounding the alarm bells? Because the phenomenon is progressing worryingly. Nearly a third of the 139 hospitals housing maternity wards gave birth to “baby sumos” last year, statistics published on Tuesday by The Sun show.
And these children would in fact be victims of theobesity mothers. “It is a direct consequence of women who fall pregnant while obese or overweight and thus give birth to big babies “declares Tam Fry, spokesperson for the National Obesity Forum (anti-obesity forum) which brings together health professionals. The first” baby sumos “appeared in 1966. Their number then rose to “explode over the past decade,” says Tam Fry.
“A serious public health problem”
The speech is clear: “The United Kingdom is the bulk of Europe”, indicated last January The Academy Of Royal Colleges, which brings together thousands of practitioners who fight against obesity. One in five children between the ages of 10 and 11 is obese, the “most serious public health problem” facing the country. Obesity and overweight are hitting the whole UK. Several damning studies find that more than half of UK adults are overweight.
And the most recent, May 29, is no more reassuring. Published in the Lancet medical journal, we learn that 67% of British men and 57% of women are obese or overweight. According to a study by the public research center Health & Social Care Information Center, the phenomenon of weight gain has increased over the past twenty years.
The World Health Organization defines obesity and overweight “as an abnormal or excessive accumulation of body fat which can be harmful to health”. In France, there are 3.5% ofoverweight children and 4.5% of obese children.
