3 Italian male in 10 children are obese

(ANSAmed) – Rome, 6 Dec – obesity among children and adolescents is more common among Italian men, where reach 30.1%, among women, 23.6%. It is also a phenomenon that mainly affects people who live in the South (34.6% compared to 22.7 in the Northwest, to 21.1% in the Northeast, at 24.6% and 31.1% of the Islands). For the rest of the world, to suffer 43 million are children under 5 years old. Tell Unicef data contained in the report “children and adolescents between nutrition and malnutrition. All rights reserved