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Inside the clinic where Britain’s fattest kids struggle to shed excess weight – Birmingham Live

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Cameras have been allowed into Britains leading Childhood Obesity Clinic where more than 80 kids a week struggle to shed the pounds.

Footage will highlight how Tommy, a 14-year-old weighing 23 stone, and Harry, a 15-year-old weighing 18 stone are amongst Britains most extreme cases, who struggling to lose weight.

But experts insist the obesity crisis could be improved if home lives were improved for some children, MirrorOnline reveals .

Professor Julian Hamilton-Shield, clinical lead in paediatric weight management says: "The health problems are absolutely huge. If you dont address it whilst youre a child. By the time youre an adolescent its almost getting too late.

"Ive seen children with BMIs of 65-67 and because overweight and obesity has become so prevalent in the country, then people have stopped recognising it as being different.

"Eighty five percent of parents dont recognise their child is overweight and the ultimate responsibility for the care of that child lies with their parents."

A body mass index(BMI) of 25 to 29.9 is considered overweight for most adults and anything over 30 is considered obese with a normal BMI is between 18.5 and 24.9.

Speaking on the Channel 4 show, 100 Kilo Kids, paediatric obesity nurse specialist Melanie Wenn also urges families to take action themselves.

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She says: "Ive seen children out of breath by the time theyve walked from the waiting room into the clinic room. You have to address that.

"If we dont reverse it now we will be failing these children."

In the revealing documentary filmed Bristol Royals Hospital for Children, Tommy, 14, has had 18 months of treatment at the clinic but is 23 stone at the start of the documentary and says his life consists around playing computer games on his bed.

"Crisps, cake, yogurts, ice cream, bit of everything really," he says of his diet.

He adds: "PS4 is my drug, I just sit here play that and go to sleep. Eat, sleep, game, repeat yknow."

He eats around 4,000 calories a day before the obesity clinic intervenes and brings him into stay in the hospital for a week. His mum Esther says at one point: "I cant watch this anymore. I am grieving for a child that is still sat here."

Harry, 15, sees his weight rise to begin with despite working with the clinic. He was initially brought in after his hip collapsed in part due to his weight.

The documentary also features a five-year-old Lilianna who weighs seven stone - double what she should for her age - and has taken to stealing food from her fridge at home.

However after doctors run tests they find out her obesity is due to gene defect which works in your brain and affects your appetite. The documentary ends with Professor Hamilton-Shield saying: "You have to work through the parents - they are the ones that need to be the effectors of change.

They are the ones that need to do it."

100 Kilo Kids: Obesity SOS is on Channel 4 on Wednesday at 9pm.

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Inside the clinic where Britain's fattest kids struggle to shed excess weight - Birmingham Live

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