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Text Schools should be doing more to convince teenage girls to take part in sport including scrapping embarrassing gym kits and offering alternative activities such as?frisbee?and yoga sessions in an effort to halt the growing obesity crisis,the secretary of state for families has told?The Guardian. ? Ed Balls said it was also up to parents to do more to tackle their childrens obesity and academic underachievement, and the government cannot improve childrens lives without their help. ? An official study to be published on Wednesday will predict that half the population could be?obesewithin the next 25 years. The?Foresight?report is also expected to say the epidemic will cost the country ￡ 45bn a year by 2050 if the loss of productivity from people who suffer obesity-related healthcare problems is added to the cost of treating them. ? Today Mr. Balls will tell a Guardian conference, the Healthy Kids Summit, that the government is ahead of a 2008 target to get 85% of pupils doing at least two hours of sports a week. But secondary schools are lagging behind?primaries?and girls are the least active once they hit adolescence. ? The way in which schools provide sports after 11 has a big impact on participation. Particularly for girls. If you have a wider range of sports on offer, more alternative sports, more things like frisbee or yoga which are as health driving as any other in schools. Mr. Balls said. If the kit is awful or embarrassing its much more likely the kids will forget to bring it. ? Tomorrow Mr. Balls, along with the School Food Trust, will step up the campaign to improve?takeup?of school dinners by another million pupils amid fears that the Jamie Oliver－led revolution in school meals is?faltering. ? An Ofsted report this month found that although many schools had introduced healthier meals, most had failed to sell the idea to their pupils and faced falling take-up. Mr. Balls said the government needed to find new ways to cinvince parents to support efforts