Evening Times: Ventilators used to keep obese city kids breathing

CHILDREN in Glasgow are being sent home from hospital with ventilators because they are so overweight they stop breathing in their sleep...

Scottish Socialist Party health spokeswoman Carolyn Leckie, who has called for a ban on junk food advertising for children, said the scandal would increase the pressure to protect the young from unhealthy diets.
She said: "This just shows that the Scottish Executive has consistently failed to put in place radical plans to improve the diet of children.
"They keep saying the £174 million it would cost to give free school meals could be better spent - but where better than in tackling conditions like this?"
The former midwife added: "Why do we still have fizzy drinks machines in schools when childhood obesity is at this level and causing this kind of harm?"