Health scare story du jour

From the BBC:

Young children who are regularly looked after by their grandparents have an increased risk of being overweight, an extensive British study has suggested. Analysis of 12,000 three-year olds suggested the risk was 34% higher if grandparents cared for them full time...

Brilliant! This story has the added bonus of sowing a few seeds of mistrust between the generations.

The article follows the BBC's usual fakecharity-story template, i.e. starts off with some meaningless statistic and ends up with somebody from the government saying that the government is taking the problem seriously and is going to "do more" - only this article seems to miss out the quotes from fakecharity spokespersons in the middle.

PS, of course, the article does not mention by how much the risk of children becoming anorexic is reduced if their grandparents look after them.

So if you still need your daily fakecharity fix, the NSPCC are on top form here.