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Rates of overweight among children 2 to 19 years in the USA. From 1980 to 2013, the prevalence of overweight and obesity in children increased by nearly 50%. [102] Currently 10% of children worldwide are either overweight or obese. [2] In 2014, the World Health Organization established a high-level commission to end childhood obesity. [103]
The MGRS focused on describing growth pattern of children who followed recommended health practices and behaviors associated with healthy outcomes. [3] Upon recollection of data from MGRS, in 2007, the World Health Organization (WHO) launched gender specific height-for-age and BMI-for-age charts for 5- to 19-year-olds (upper limit of ...
The current trends show that children aged 12–19 years old, have obesity levels 2.2% higher than children 6–11 years old (20.6% vs. 18.4%), and children 6–11 years old have obesity levels 4.5% higher than children aged 2–5 years old (18.4% vs. 13.9%).
In developing countries, the number of overweight children more than doubled to 15.5 million in 2014 from 7.5 million in 1990.
In summary, between 2003 and 2006, 11.3% of children and adolescents were obese and 16.3% were overweight. A slight increase was observed in 2007 and 2008 when the recorded data shows that 11.9% of the children between 6 and 19 years old were obese and 16.9% were overweight.
In 2005, 14.9% children from 6 to 12 years of age were overweight; by gender, 15.85% of males and 14.02% of females were overweight. 10.3% were categorized as obese; by gender, 10.92% of males and 9.73% of females were categorized as obese. [citation needed]
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In the 1950s two percent of households owned television sets, and 40 years later, 98% of households owned at least 1 television set. Current data reveals that, between the ages of 2 and 17 years, on average children spend more than 3 years of their lives watching television. [2] Unhealthy food advertisements correlate with childhood obesity rates.