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Topic A: Obesity in Children
Globally, an estimated 43 million preschool children (under age 5) were overweight or obese in 2010, a 60 percent increase since 1990. Obesity rates are higher in adults than in children. But in relative terms, the U.S., Brazil, China, and other countries have seen the problem escalate more rapidly in children than in adults.
North America
Over the past threedecades, childhood obesity rates have tripled in the U.S., and today, the country has some of the highest obesity rates in the world: one out of six children is obese, and one out of three children is overweight or obese.
Obesity is more common in boys than girls (19 percent versus 15 percent).
From 1999 to 2010, Mexican American infants were 67 percent more likely to have a high weight for recumbentlength than non-Hispanic white infants.
Canada has also seen a rise in childhood obesity since the late 1970s—overall, obesity rates have more than doubled, and in some age groups, tripled. But childhood obesity rates are still a good bit lower there than they are in the U.S. In 2007–2008, nearly 9 percent of Canadian youth ages 6 to 17 were obese.  Child obesity is a bigger problem amongCanada’s Aboriginal groups: A survey of Aboriginal groups who live outside of reservations found that in 2006, nearly 33 percent of children ages 6 to 8 were obese, as were 13 percent of children ages 9 to 14.
Latin America and the Caribbean
Though data are scarce from Latin America and the Caribbean, it’s clear that childhood overweight and obesity have become considerable problems—and that overall,more children in the region are overweight than underweight.
Preschoolers
Roughly 7 percent of children under the age of 5 in Latin America and the Caribbean were estimated to be overweight or obese in 2010.
School-Age Children and Adolescents
Nationally representative data are limited in these age groups, but again, the best available data suggest that obesity has become a serious problem. InMexico, for example, a 2006 government health survey measured heights and weights of children across the country. It found that nearly 10 percent of 15-year-olds were obese and 33 percent were overweight or obese, using the adult cut points for overweight. In Argentina, meanwhile, investigators measured heights and weights from a representative sample of 1,688 children ages 10 to 11 in BuenosAires’ public schools. They found that 35 percent of the children were overweight or obese.
The Bottom Line: It’s never too early to Start Preventing Obesity
Even among the youngest of children, it’s clear that obesity rates are rising across the globe. Equally clear is that it’s very, very hard for anyone who becomes overweight to lose weight, at any age. Preventing obesity in a child’s earliest years(and even before birth, by healthy habits during pregnancy) confers a lifetime of health benefits. And it’s the most promising path for turning around the global epidemic.

European Childhood Obesity
The WHO Regional Office for Europe has established a European childhood obesity surveillance system in fifteen countries in the Region. The system aims to routinely measure trends in overweightand obesity in primary school children (6-9 years), in order to understand the progress of the epidemic in this population group and to permit intercountry comparisons within the European Region.
Preliminary results indicate 24% of 6-9 year olds overweight
Preliminary results of the first round indicate that on average 24% of the children aged 6-9 years old are overweight or obese.
Background tothe study
The first data collection took place during the school year 2007/2008, with 13 countries participating (Belgium (Flemish region), Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Norway, Portugal, Slovenia and Sweden).
Mexico has record childhood obesity
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