Childhood obesity is rising globally. It can have lifelong implications

More than one billion people worldwideare estimated to be living with obesity and 159 million of them are children or adolescents...

The growth in childhood obesity rates is concerning..

Back in 1975, fewer than 1 in every 100 children was obese now the rate is almost 10 per 100 young people, according to figures from the World Obesity Federation..

And when you look at the combined prevalence of both obesity and being overweight among children and adolescents, a fifth are affected, compared to just 4% in 1975...

For example, national data for England shows that the prevalence of 10- and 11-year-old children living with severe obesity was over four times as high for children living in the most deprived areas (9.4%) compared with those living in the least deprived areas (2.1%)...