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18WT #042: Children and Obesity - Childhood Obesity is on the Rise in the U.S. and the World!
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18WT 042: CHILDREN AND OBESITY - CHILDHOOD OBESITY IS ON THE RISE IN THE U.S. & THE WORLD
- The scales don’t lie: Many American kids spent the last year of remote learning being more sedentary and eating their feelings
- The hardest hit, has been children ages 5 to 11, who gained an average of more than five pounds, adjusted for height, according to the journal of American medicine (JAMA)
- For the average 5-year-old (about 40 pounds), that’s a 12.5 percent weight gain.
- For the average 11-year-old (about 82 pounds), it’s a 6 percent weight gain
- Pre- pandemic, about 36 percent of 5- to 11-year-olds were considered overweight or obese, and that increased to 45.7 percent.
- Kaiser Permanente Southern California electronic health record data from nearly 200,000 children ages 5 to 17 to track weight gain during the pandemic, is considered one of the largest of its kind, and Significant weight gain occurred during the covid-19 pandemic among youths, especially the younger ones.
- The change was in a very short period of time,” said Barry Popkin, an obesity researcher at the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- He added that about 15 other studies in both high- and low-income countries reflect a similar trend, when it comes to pandemic-spurred obesity in children.
- Before the coronavirus, studies showed that students tended to gain weight during the summer when away from school, said Lorrene Ritchie, a nutrition policy specialist in Berkeley, Calif.
- Ritchie said that companies selling junk food have had more access during the pandemic to market directly to children who spent more time on screens.
- During normal school years children lose some of the summer weight. This happens from school nutrition programs combined with encouraged physical activity such as recess and gym classes.
- Another study by the CDC looked at 432,302 children from ages 2-19. They found that obesity was at 22%, compared with 19% before....
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