This story at the BBC is really scary, but not too sur­pris­ing. Three-year-old dies from obesity.

Dr Sheila McK­en­zie, a con­sult­ant pae­di­at­ri­cian at the Royal Lon­don, told the Health Select Com­mit­tee: “In the past two years one child at the age of three has died of heart fail­ure sec­ond­ary to extreme obesity.”

The shock­ing case was high­lighted in a scath­ing report on obesity by MPs which says too little has been done to tackle the epidemic.

It was only a mat­ter of time…