The government’s attempt in fighting obesity in school children is not what it should have been with very little seen as a result.

No significant dent in the girths of young Australians has been spotted from the many schemes by federal and state governments aimed at keeping childhood obesity away, Productivity Commission researchers have found.

Many student-focused anti-obesity programs were seen for compiling the report and it was seen nothing significant happened.

Researchers Jacqueline Crowle and Erin Turner said ''Attempts made to keep obesity away have not been effective in preventing weight gain to any significant degree.”

Jane Martin, a spokeswoman for the Obesity Policy Coalition said that there might have been some positive aspects of these programs as well like spreading awareness about how to eat healthy and how important exercising is but most of the interventions meant a lot of money and their benefits could not outweigh the costs hence making these programs not very successful.

Martin said, “The taskforce called for a comprehensive approach, including policies to reduce junk food marketing to children, through tax and pricing, and to improve package labeling.”