All schoolchildren are to be weighed for the Government to know where the obesity problem is most prevalent and which areas have to be tackled, Education Minister Evarist Bartolo said this evening.

He was replying to a Parliamentary questions by Anthony Agius Decelis and Claudette Buttigieg.

The study, the minister said, would be carried out by the university. He noted that obesity was a very serious problem with health issues usually associated with 50-year-olds being found in 12-year-old obese children.

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