{"id":89067,"date":"2026-05-12T08:03:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T08:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=89067"},"modified":"2026-05-12T08:03:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T08:03:36","slug":"hundreds-of-obese-four-year-olds-treated-at-nhs-clinics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/05\/12\/hundreds-of-obese-four-year-olds-treated-at-nhs-clinics\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of obese four-year-olds treated at NHS clinics"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA22YWaN.img?w=1920&amp;h=1080&amp;q=60&amp;m=2&amp;f=jpg\" alt=\"Health risks for children with untreated obesity\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Youngest patients revealed:\u00a0<\/strong>NHS figures show 423 four-year-olds have been treated for severe obesity since 2021, some weighing the same as average 10-year-olds. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/hundreds-of-obese-four-year-olds-treated-at-nhs-clinics\/ss-AA22YwpZ?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=1390ace55f49496caa1410a949307843&amp;ei=94\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Youngest patients revealed:\u00a0NHS figures show 423 four-year-olds have been treated for severe obesity since 2021, some weighing the same as average 10-year-olds&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-89067","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/child-obese.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89068,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89067\/revisions\/89068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}