Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 18 April 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs

Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion

9:30 am

Professor Cecily Kelleher:

-----and perhaps the dietary question is more complex. These days young men are very interested in physical activity and exercise, including weightlifting and all of those other pieces. Those kinds of things are ways in and the key in schools is to get people involved in things that are not necessarily participative sports, although that is excellent too, so that they are moving and active all the time. There is research on that question but COSI is an international protocol so that we have systematic figures.