Zee News : declared in India harbours second highest number of obese children in the world; China tops list!

Researchers observed that more than two billion children and adults around the world suffer from obesity-related health problems. In 2015, excess weight affected 2.2 billion children and adults worldwide, or 30% of all people, TOI reported. Now, making it case-specific, a report in the Times of India (TOI) has recognised India with the second highest childhood obesity rate, second only to China. New Delhi: The fact that obesity is a step toward long term health problems is not unknown. In 2015, US recorded 79.4 million and China with 57.3 million cases respectively of the highest numbers of obese adults.

Country has second highest number of obese children in the world, finds new study

While India has 14.4 million of them, China tops the chart with 15.3 million obese children. India has the second highest number of obese children in the world, according to a new study published in The New England Journal of Medicine. Nearly 108 million children and over 600 million adults had their body mass index (BMI) above 30, the threshold for obesity. According to the study, obesity has doubled since 1980 in more than 70 countries. The study finds that United States has the highest level of obesity among children and young adults at nearly 13% while Egypt topped the list for adult obesity at around 35%.


The Pennsylvania Department of Health publishes the data annually, combining students in grades K-6 in one group, and students in grades 7-12 another. The department doesn't publish BMI information for specific schools or school districts. Rather, it publishes them by county and groups them into six regions.


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