Three quarters of UK children ‘overfed from birth’

These statistics are “of concern in relation to wider evidence on the prevalence and risk of overweight and obesity in childhood”, according to the SNAC report.

“Experts know that people who are overweight as children are more likely to be overweight as adults,” says the BBC, but a link with overfeeding in infancy is “less clear”. Public Health England says that more up-to-date data is needed to investigate.