It is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore the worldwide obesity epidemic especially in children and teenagers. Being overweight, defined by the 85th percentile of weight for height, among 5-to-24-years-old in United States was first significantly noticed in 1994 from the study of Tulane University in Louisiana showing that a number of obese children increased twofold in two decades, between 1973 and 1994.Moreover, a Japanese study confirmed approximately one-third of overweight children grew into overweight adults. Therefore, governments and health organizations tried to launch many campaigns to slow down and decrease the ratio, and it seems to work.
Recently, new data presented at the International Congress on Obesity in Sweden
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