Junk Medicine: child obesity

In the 1930s a Scottish miner seeking work moved his family to the Kent coalfield. After settling them into a house in Betteshanger, he travelled back to Scotland and removed a door frame from their old house.

He carried it back to Kent and carefully built it into one of the doors there. Why? Because this precious scrap of wood was covered in the pencil marks that he and his wife had made as they measured the growth of their children. He could not bear to part with this tangible record of their growth and health.

Parents have always wanted to track their children's progress, and until about 30 years ago had little difficulty. Click here for full article.