Alarming number of children who are obese worldwide
Posted on: 10/Oct/2016 11:32:38 AM
World Obesity Day will be observed on October 11. A recent study has said that around 268 million children aged 5 to 17 years may be overweight by 2025, assuming no policy interventions have proven effective at changing current trends. The researchers have released data anticipating that obesity-related conditions will rise among children.
Say the researchers, These forecasts should sound an alarm bell for health service managers and health professionals, who will have to deal with this rising tide of ill health following the obesity epidemic. In a sense, we hope these forecasts are wrong: they assume current trends continue, but we are urging governments to take strong measures to reduce childhood obesity and meet their agreed target of getting the levels of childhood obesity down to 2010 levels before we get to 2025.
