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Tenfold increase in childhood and adolescent obesity in four decades

who.int October 11, 2017

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The number of obese children and adolescents (aged five to 19 years) worldwide has risen tenfold in the past four decades. If current trends continue, more children and adolescents will be obese than moderately or severely underweight by 2022, according to a new study led by Imperial College London and WHO.

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