Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 21 March 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs

Tackling Childhood Obesity: W82GO! Weight Management Service

9:30 am

Ms Nicola Sheridan:

May I interject? I may have a tiny bit of silver lining. We often see after group, that children who hate PE and physical activity get the confidence to move. They become involved in groups locally. It might be that they go back to a team sport, which is less likely, but they often get involved in activities such as swimming, boxing or a teen gym because this is the first time they have ever had a positive physical activity experience where they are exercising together with people who are the same as them. There is no bullying, they are enjoying the experience and they can see the positivity of physical activity. That can take them into the community to an extent.

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