The Alarming Rise in Childhood Obesity: A Growing Health Crisis

Childhood obesity: This is a condition found in a child, whereby he or she is registered to be highly overweight according to his or her age and height. It is described, based on Body Mass Index, as an emerging concern in childhood obesity. Obesity prevalence for children in the age group from 5 to 19 years has increased tenfold since 1975, and in 2016 over 340 million children fell into either underweight or obesity categories.

Totally at variance with a trend of the developed world, obesity rates among children and adolescents are sharply on the increase–notably in the lower- and middle-income nations, particularly in cities.