September 10, 2025 1:24 PM
Obesity overtakes being underweight among world’s young, says UNICEF
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. 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. UNICEF used the data to project what has happened sinc...