Expert final withdrawal of "child plumpness letters"

334PM GMT twenty-four March 2010

Tam Fry, from the National Obesity Forum, pronounced he was indignant the minute was simply formed on measurements inputted in to a computer programme and not the outcome of involvement by a helper or doctor.

His involvement comes after Kellie Pickering, from Nottingham, was sent a minute to contend her daughter Kaisha Joyce, four, was overweight.

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"It"s infamous relatives should be removing this minute about their kid but anybody carrying seen the kid to see if it is appropriate," pronounced Mr Fry. "There contingency be thousands of these letters being sent to family groups opposite the country.

""The repairs is inestimable since they are told their kid is fat and they should do something about it. They competence well be scared about their child"s weight that competence be utterly inappropriate.

""All of this could have been avoided by the Department of Health meditative severely about what the minute is saying. It"s all inapt and should right away be cold and re-written.""

Mr Fry, who is additionally authority of The Child Growth Foundation, combined most tall young kids who are active could be classed as overweight since flesh weighs one-and-a-half times some-more than fat.

Kaisha was totalled at Haydn Primary School in the city following the key of the National Child Measurement Programme.

As piece of the initiative, the Department of Health has created to internal first caring trusts opposite the nation asking them to magnitude the tallness and weight of thousands of propagandize children.

The measurements are afterwards used to work out each child"s Body Mass Index, that relates tallness to weight and is mostly used to establish obesity.

Ms Pickering, 25, perceived the minute about Kaisha after her daughter, who stands at 3ft 7in and weighs 3st 5lb, was found to be in the overweight joint by only 1lb. In it, she perceived recommendation about the dangers of diabetes and heart disease.

Ms Pickering pronounced ""You can put 1lb on celebration a large potion of H2O or putting some-more garments on. I"ve weighed her and she"s customarily nearer 3st 2.5lb.

""She cooking copiousness of vegetables as the family is vegetarian, nonetheless I haven"t lifted Kaisha as vegetarian. She"s tall for her age as well. I don"t know how any one can contend she"s overweight.""

There have been a couple of alternative cases to strike the headlines. Last week Kriss Hodgson, the mom of five-year-old Cian Attwood, complained after she perceived a identical minute from NHS Telford and Wrekin.

Ms Hodgson, 27, from Overdale, Shropshire, pronounced it was ""ridiculous"" to contend her son, who weighs 4st 2lb and is 3ft 10in, was overweight.