Dr. Barry Dworkin

Childhood obesity rates continue to climb thanks in part to slick marketing and the normalization of the subsequent obesogenic environment it created

Health Headlines Commentary for October 11, 2017

Source:

Global childhood obesity rates now 10 times higher than in 1975

Reference:

Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults

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