Children: Obesity — Question

Part of the debate – in the House of Lords at 2:45 pm on 12 January 2016.

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Photo of Lord Winston Lord Winston Labour 2:45, 12 January 2016

My Lords, given that homo sapiens is a species that is programmed to eat carbohydrate and fat, what estimate have the Government made of how much childhood obesity is due to epigenetic factors rather than simply eating sugar and carbohydrate later on in life? Might this not be programming earlier in the generation perhaps as the result of previous generations’ environment? This is an essential point in understanding obesity.