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Scientists found that girls with a high-fat diet who are not physically active are known to physically mature earlier than their slimmer more active pals.

New NHS data shows the number of times girls were seen at hospital for cases of precocious puberty increased to 2,032 last year, up from 1,510 previously.

Type 2 diabetes in children has been described as a health time bomb during a meeting about tackling the problem in Nottinghamshire.

Experts warn the nations childhood obesity epidemic is fuelling the rise in cases, with some girls starting to mature before they even begin school.

Transitioning a teen with type 1 diabetes from pediatric care to taking full responsibility for their own condition under an adult team is one of the biggest challenges in endocrinology today.

As Sally Roberts’s 14-year-old son changed his top for football practice, she was shocked to see his stomach hanging over the waistband of his shorts. ‘I’d noticed he’d been getting chubbier in the face, but I hadn’t dared say anything in case it gave him a complex,’ says Sally, a 45-year-old legal secretary from London. But after bouts of lockdown and class bubble isolations spent in front of a screen, combined with months of restrictions on his group sports, his weight gain had be...