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
