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Cheryl Gogin BYA02A1 Is it a problem that our children don't exercise enough? With the government putting in £459m for physical education in schools and a further £750m in to the infrastructure of sport the question is whether this will be enough to turn around the falling numbers of participation in sport. They are trying to get children interested in sport and exercise from an earlier age so that they will carry on in later life, as 70% of children give up exercise after they leave school. Alarming statistics find that 'around 20% of four-year-olds in the UK are overweight and 8% are obese' (1). In England, the occurrence of obesity increases seemingly with age, 17% of 15-year-olds are officially obese; these statistics have rapidly increased over the past ten years. In one instance the number of obese 15-year-olds has trebled. Obesity costs the NHS a total of 2bn a year to treat...

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