Health

WHO: 41 million children will be too thick

Millions of children suffer around the world, already before their fifth birthday to Overweight or obesity, announced the world health organization. Complicity is aggressive advertising for unhealthy food.

6.1 percent of the Under-five-year-olds are too thick. So it is in the
Report
the world health organization (WHO) on Monday (25.01.2016) in Geneva is presented. A total of 41 million children around the world. With 48 percent live almost half of the overweight children in Asia, a quarter in Africa.

25 years ago, in 1990, the proportion was 31 million children still 4.8 per cent. The most notable increases is the number in poor countries and emerging markets. In Africa the number of overweight girls and boys from 1990 to 2014 from 5.4 million to 10.3 million almost doubled, as it says in the study.

Basis for the classification is the Body Mass Index (BMI), the ratio of height to weight is calculated.

The Commission turned with recommendations directly to the States. “A stronger political commitment is needed to the global challenge of childhood Overweight and obesity, and to tackle”, said the Co-Chairman of the Commission, Peter Gluckman, with. The proposals of the WTO: Standards for school Lunches, a sugar tax, and less advertising for unhealthy food. In addition, children should move more, and sports to be suspended and less time in front of computers and TVs to spend.

Overweight and obesity make kids not only physically, but also mentally ill. The person Concerned could in a become socially isolated and are at the latest as adults from diseases such as osteoarthritis, Diabetes, and heart problems threatened. In the adult could be Overweight due to the medical risks, faster economic difficulties slipping as healthy people.

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