The report said that the total number of children, adolescents and adults worldwide living with obesity has crossed the 1 billion mark. It said that in 2022 there were 159 million obese children and adolescents and 879 million obese adults across the globe.
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Obesity among children in India has spiked sharply with about 12.5 million of those between the ages of five and 19 overweight in 2022 compared to 0.4 million in 1990, according to a global analysis published in The Lancet journal.
Obesity among children in India has spiked sharply with about 12.5 million of those between ages of five and 19 overweight in 2022 compared to 0.4 million in 1990