Alarming Surge: Global Crisis of Childhood Overweight and Obesity. Since 1990, the rise in childhood overweight and obesity has surged across every continent, almost doubling in prevalence. While the United States has the highest prevalence, other nations are not far behind.
https://www.fau.edu/newsdesk/articles/childhood-obesity-epidemic#:~:text=In%20adults%2C%20these%20issues%20significantly,Professor%20of%20Medicine%20and%20Preventive
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Since 1990, the rise in childhood overweight and obesity has surged across every continent, almost doubling in prevalence. While the United States has the highest prevalence, other nations are not far behind.
In Southern Europe, including Greece, Italy and Spain, 10 to 15% of children are obese, while Eastern European countries have somewhat lower rates, but are experiencing a rapid increase that may soon match Southern Europe. Globally, Asia has nearly half of all overweight children under the age of 5, and Africa has one-quarter of such children. In Latin America, about 20% of children under 20 are overweight. Many developing countries face the dual challenge of both overweight/obesity and malnutrition in their children.
The deleterious consequences of this epidemic are already evident: childhood hypertension, type 2 diabetes, among others. Researchers from Florida Atlantic University’s Schmidt College of Medicine and colleagues sound the alarm and discuss both challenges and potential solutions in a commentary published in The Maternal and Child Health Journal.
[https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10995-024-04001-6](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10995-024-04001-6)
Remember guys, obesity is just a failure of character and has nothing to do with the food we eat. There’s no such thing as carbohydrate addiction, it’s just a crazy conspiracy. Keep buying what you are buying.
Oh it almost certainly has nothing to do with the global increases in cost of living, coupled with the inherent decrease in available parental energy and availability of quick meal options which offer almost no nutritional value.
Just unchecked capitalism working as intended, no worries mate.
I just finished reading “Ultra-Processed People” and it gave me a fresh look at the difference between food and something merely *edible*. It’s hard to argue that all of these children simply have no willpower, or bad parents, or play too many video games, etc etc.
My friend is a personal trainer and his daughters, under 13 years old, are both obese and I just can’t understand how or why he allows that when he doesn’t eat or live that lifestyle himself.
Meanwhile I can count my kid’s ribs because he eats like a bird. He looks like David Bowie. I guess there are worse things
I know this is instantly going to make me sound like I’m out of touch…but are kids playing outside like they used to? Is it possible that those low effort memes about kids going soft had a kernel of truth to them?
I wonder how the introduction of he internet to the average household factors into all of this?
I didn’t want to ask these questions because it….honestly made me feel older typing them out- but it can’t be a coincidence that the studies data begins at the advent of internet 1.0
Technology, processed foods, and bad parenting are the cause.
Chemicals are wrecking us.
Umm the correct term is **plus-sized** children!
I wonder what would happen if someone made fast food that had no calories, or other nutrients.
The “food” would still make you feel full, but provide zero nutrition at all.