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Food marketing, policies, pricing behind tenfold rise in childhood, adolescent obesity in four decades
Obesity rates in the world’s children and adolescents increased from less than one per cent (equivalent to five million girls and six million boys) in 1975 to nearly six per cent in girls (50 million) and nearly eight per cent in boys (74 million) in 2016.
Chukwuma Muanya, Assistant Editor
