Rates of overweight among children 2 to 19 years in the USA. From 1980 to 2013, the prevalence of overweight and<unk>  in children increased by nearly 50%. Currently 10% of children worldwide are either overweight or obese. In 2014, the World Health Organization established a high-level commission to end<unk> . With more than 42 million overweight children around the world,<unk>  is increasing worldwide. Since 1980, the number of obese children has doubled in all three North American countries, Mexico, the United States, and Canada. Although the rate of<unk>  in the United States has stopped increasing, the current rate remains high. In 2010, 32.6 percent of 6- to 11-year-olds were overweight, and 18 percent of 6- to 9-year-olds were obese. Canada The rate of overweight and<unk>  among Canadian children has increased dramatically in recent years. In boys, the rate increased from 11% in the 1980s to 30% in the 1990s. Brazil The rate of overweight and<unk>  in Brazilian children increased from 4% in the 1980s to 14% in the 1990s. In 2007 the prevalence of children overweight and<unk>  was 11.1% and 2.7% in girls, 8.2% and 1.5% in boys, respectively. United States The rate of<unk>  among children and adolescents in the United States has nearly tripled between the early 1980s and 2000. It has however not changed significantly between 2000 and 2006 with the most recent statistics showing a level just over 17 percent. In 2008, the rate of overweight and obese children in the United States was 32%, and had stopped climbing. In 2011, a national cohort study of infants and toddlers found that nearly one-third of US children were overweight or obese at 9 months and 2 years old. In a follow-up study, infant weight status (healthy and obese) was strongly associated with preschool weight status. Australia Since the onset of the 21st century, Australia has found that<unk>  has followed trend with the United States. Information garnered has concluded that the increase has occurred in the lower socioeconomic areas where poor nutritional education has been blamed.
Childhood obesity
Low Birth Weight
Gestational hypertension
Normal weight obesity
Childhood chronic illness
Low birth weight
Gestational diabetes
Sedentary lifestyle