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How to help your child lose weight

Parents are worried about obesity, but what can they do? Rebecca McQuillan goes in search of the best answers.

When Zoe Silver from Glasgow was 12 years old, she weighed in at 12 stone. "I remember thinking: is she going to go up a stone each year?" says her mother, Caroline.