City’s Henry programme gives children choices while helping parents maintain boundaries
Leeds has become the first city in the UK to report a drop in childhood obesity after introducing a programme to help parents set boundaries for their children and say no to sweets and junk food.
Only a few cities in the world, notably Amsterdam, have managed to cut child obesity. Like Amsterdam, the decline in Leeds is most marked among families living in the most deprived areas, where the problem is worst and hardest to tackle.
Henry (Health, Exercise, Nutrition for the Really Young) aims to help families live healthy, active and more harmonious lives. Out go the threats of no pudding and the bribes of ice cream and sweets. Instead, parents and carers are given confidence to be fair but firm, offering choice but only between oranges and apples, or carrots and peas.
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