By davideownzall on Skatehive
Credits: asiaplus.news When we think about malnutrition in children, we all immediately think of underweight children as the most common form of malnutrition, yet to my great surprise I discovered from the report Feeding Profit: How Food Environments are Failing Children that obesity is today the most common form of malnutrition in the world. For the first time, the number of obese children has surpassed underweight children, and this is extremely significant. For years we have talked about hunger, about scarcity, but the numbers today are these: the percentage of boys and girls aged 5 to 19 has decreased since 2000, going from almost 13% to 9.2%, while obesity rates have increased from 3% to 9.4%. It is a surpassing that says a lot; overall in the world about 188 million children and adolescents between 5 and 19 years old are obese, almost one in ten. And it is not just a matter of rich countries, it also concerns middle- and low-income countries. The number of young people who are ov