Over the last forty years, the number of children and teenagers with OBESITY has skyrocketed worldwide. In 1975, an estimated five million girls and six million boys were obese . By 2016, those numbers had up to a calculable fifty million girls and seventy four million boys, in keeping with a report published on-line October 10 within the Lancet. Whereas the rise in childhood OBESITY has slowed or leveled off in several high-income countries, it continues to grow in different elements of the planet , particularly in Asia. Using the body mass index, a quantitative relation of weight to height, of more than thirty million 5- to 19-year-olds, researchers tracked trends from 1975 to 2016 in 5 weight categories: moderate to severe underweight , mild underweight , healthy weight, overweight and OBESITY . The researchers outlined OBESITY as having a BMI around nineteen or higher for a 5-year-old up to around thirty or higher for a 19-year...
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