While undernutrition remains a significant concern among children under 5 in most low- and middle-income countries, the prevalence of overweight and obesity is increasing among school-aged children ...

(Rizwan TABASSUM/AFP/AFP) Obesity has skyrocketed among children and adolescents bombarded by "unethical" marketing of junk food, outpacing undernourishment to become the leading form of malnutrition ...

For the first time, more school-age children and adolescents worldwide are obese than underweight, according to U.N. findings — a trend driven in large part by a rapid increase in obesity among young ...

For the first time in history, more children are obese than underweight, a shift UNICEF says is putting millions of kids at risk of life-threatening disease. The UN agency’s analysis, which covered ...

Globally, one in 20 children under five and one in five children and adolescents aged 5–19 are overweight. Childhood obesity has now surpassed underweight as the more common form of malnutrition ...

LONDON (Reuters) -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 ...

Ultra-processed foods are increasingly replacing fruits, vegetables, and proteins in children’s diets across more than 190 countries, fueling a surge in obesity. A new UNICEF report finds that more ...

More school-age children and adolescents are now obese than underweight, a new report from the United Nations’ children’s agency, UNICEF, has revealed, with 188 million young people affected. Obesity ...

India, Sept. 10 -- For the first time in history, obesity has surpassed those underweight as the most common form of malnutrition among school-age children and adolescents worldwide, UNICEF revealed ...

Millions have been reached through UNICEF’s humanitarian relief efforts in the past three years of full-scale war in Ukraine. Andrii, 10, embraces his mother in the kitchen of their home in Kherson, ...

One in 10 children worldwide now has obesity, a report from UNICEF found, and the number of overweight children has more than doubled in low- and middle-income countries since 2000. By Simar Bajaj For ...