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Food and Health Fact #6
Fact #6: Childhood obesity around the world
By Matthew Rees
Food and Health Fact #6: The Rise in Childhood Obesity
Read the article in STAT I co-authored with Dr. Vanita Rahman on Americans' declining health, with recommendations for what the next administration can do about it: https://www.statnews.com/2020/11/04/nutrition-make-america-healthy-again/
From 1975-2016, the global child obesity rate rose more than eightfold, from 0.8 percent to 6.7 percent. During this period, the U.S. child obesity rate rose from about 5 percent to 18.5 percent.
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