Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 14 February 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children

Tackling Obesity: Discussion with Operation Transformation

10:25 am

Dr. Eva Orsmond:

We will obviously raise the problem before it becomes a major or chronic problem. Aaron, a boy who now weighs 21 stone, was in Tallaght hospital at the age of eight years weighing 14 stone. How is it possible that a child would weigh 14 stone at eight years?