{"id":182647,"date":"2025-09-10T12:54:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T08:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=182647"},"modified":"2025-09-10T16:46:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T12:46:59","slug":"obesity-among-young-people-worldwide-exceeds-underweight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/182647\/","title":{"rendered":"Obesity among young people worldwide exceeds underweight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Globally, obesity is likely now more prevalent among school-aged children and adolescents than being underweight, according to a new report from UNICEF which blamed increasingly unhealthy food environments worldwide for the shift, Reuters<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n

The UN children’s agency based its estimates on data from 2000-2022 compiled by academics in countries around the world, who first predicted in 2017 that this “tipping point” would be reached in the coming years․<\/p>\n

UNICEF used the data to project what has happened since 2022, based on trends since 2010. It found that 1 in 10, or roughly 188 million, school-aged children and adolescents have obesity based on the World Health Organization’s criteria, putting them at risk of lifelong health problems including diabetes and cardiovascular disease.<\/p>\n

Obesity rates in that age group have more than tripled, from 3% in 2000 to 9.4%, UNICEF said. That compares with a decline in the prevalence of underweight children among those aged 5-19, from nearly 13% in 2000 to 9.2% – meaning this is also still a significant problem, the report acknowledged.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Globally, obesity is likely now more prevalent among school-aged children and adolescents than being underweight, according to a new report from UNICEF which blamed increasingly unhealthy food environments worldwide for the shift, Reuters writes. The UN children’s agency based its estimates on data from 2000-2022 compiled by academics in countries around the world, who first […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":182539,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43,98,47,110,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-other-en","category-society","category-health","category-social"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182648,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182647\/revisions\/182648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}