Given that 2007, 45 teenagers have had gastric bands, bypasses or abdomen staples in order to lessen the volume they can consume and assist them get rid of weight. The youngest was 14, in accordance to figures launched in Parliament.
The Welsh Government is to problem recommendations on 2nd helpings to education chiefs subsequent 12 months.
A spokesperson said: “We would by no means want to see youngsters obtaining college meals going hungry.
“We have provided colleges with advised portion sizes which cater for modifying nutritional demands as kids get older.
“So, for illustration, a youngster in yr six would have a larger portion than a little one in reception.”
Newest figures demonstrate 22 per cent of kids are overweight or obese by the time they commence major college. The variety of youngsters treated in hospital for bodyweight-connected problems has quadrupled in the previous decade.
Young children are presently weighed and measured in the first and final 12 months of major college in a bid to keep track of and tackle the dilemma.
Wales has greater prices of kid obesity than England and Scotland. Newest figures display than 28 per cent of 5-yr-olds in Wales are obese with twelve.five per cent classed as obese.
The new figures, which have been uncovered as portion of a BBC Wales survey, identified that Powys Council has banned pudding as seconds whilst Cardiff schools offer only further bread to hungry pupils.
In Denbighshire, kids are not encouraged to ask for more and in Ceredigion only tiny 2nd portions are given out.
Cooks in Powys can not give “drastically bigger portions” to older pupils since all children pay out the identical.
But they do give somewhat much more potatoes and vegetables to young children.
Russell George, the Conservative Assembly Member for Montgomery, carried out his own survey of local colleges and found youngsters have been leaving the table still hungry.
A questionnaire to parents exposed 67 per cent explained portions were too tiny, 93 per cent wished their kids to have seconds, and ten per cent stopped using college meals since of portion sizes.
Mr George mentioned: “Many older young children are complaining they remained hungry following their college meal.”
Current tips state that primary pupils should acquire 530 calories per two-course meal even though youngsters in secondary schools get 646 calories.
Despite the new measures in Wales, one particular in five local councils has allocated no funds to tackle child weight problems.
According to analysis of council budgets in September, 33 of 152 councils have reserved no funds for programmes to battle the epidemic.
Schoolchildren refused second helpings at lunch in weight problems crackdown
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