One out of Every Three Children in the World Overweight

A third of the world’s children have been found to be overweight, according to a new study conducted by the World Health Organization and published in the Journal of Pediatrics.

The study reports that over 70,000 teenagers belonging to 34 nations have excess weight or are obese, mostly due to spending too much of their time at TV sets, computers or just chatting with their pals. All these activities make a sedentary lifestyle heavily predominant among our kids.

The study further says that not more than 25 per cent of the boys exercise properly. This percentage is even less with girls, showing that most of the children tend to neglect exercise.

The tendency is the same in all countries, WHO official Regina Guthold points out. “With regards to physical activity levels, we did not find much of a difference between poor and rich countries,” she said, stressing that it is a worldwide problem.

WHO officials warn that as long as children prefer to stay glued to TV sets and computers and shirk exercising, children obesity – that has already gained the characteristics of an epidemic – will be getting worse by the year.

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