A plea has been made for a national nutrition policy, to reduce the number of overweight children in Barbados.
It comes from the Heart and Stroke Foundation, along with the Childhood Obesity Prevention Coalition, as the island joined other countries across the globe to mark World Obesity Day.
Wendy Burke has that story.
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