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Children less healthy than 50 years ago

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The Daily Mail, 21 June 2011

Dr Mike Marciewicz, consultant paediatrician at the Bupa Cromwell Hospital, discusses childhood health changes over the last 50 years in The Daily Mail.

"Britain already has one of the highest rates of heart disease - it’s the country’s biggest killer - and childhood obesity means this is only likely to rise," says Dr Markiewicz.


Read more about the differences in the health between child today and 50 years ago in The Daily Mail.

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