Child obesity crisis: Millions doomed to early death as doctors call for urgent action over junk food!

Children are being doomed to an early death by their lifestyles - with four in five obese school pupils destined to remain dangerously overweight for life, a damning report warns.

Senior paediatricians last night said millions of families were stuck in “a terrible destructive cycle” which would cut lives short by decades, as they called for sweeping measures to reduce Britain’s consumption of junk food.

The report by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Child Health calls for curbs on advertising of unhealthy foods before the watershed, and action to stop fast food outlets opening near schools.

And it accuses the Government of stalling or going backwards in efforts to tackle “alarming” failings in child health.