Family meals can 'cut risk of child obesity by 40%'

Traditional family routines could stop children becoming obese, a study has claimed.

It found that ditching modern lifestyles for the way many lived decades ago could cut the risk by 40 per cent for four-year-olds.

And it revealed that while each rule - eating dinner with the family, getting lots of sleep and watching less TV - cuts the risk on its own, the effect was greater when all three were combined.