The year child malnutrition flipped, in one chart.Something striking just happened in global nutrition: As of 2025, children worldwide are now more likely to be obese than underweight.According to UNICEF’s new Child Nutrition Report, about 9.4 percent of school-age kids (ages 5–19) are living with obesity, compared to 9.2 percent who are underweight. Twenty-five years ago, the gap was much wider: Nearly 13 percent of kids were underweight, while just 3 percent had obesity. Over time, those lines have converged and flipped.
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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @Akg10s3 3h
This simply means that over the last 25 years, the internet and advances in communications have brought junk food, high in sugar and fat, to more children worldwide.
Which will not be beneficial in the long run; on the contrary, it will lead more adults to diabetes and heart attacks in the future.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Solomonsatoshi 3h
The worst traffic in my city is when parents are driving their kids to school.
We used to walk or bike, or take the bus, back in the day.
Agree though that low quality highly advertised and addictive high sugar junk food is probably the major factor.
Junk food needs to be taxed to pay for the obesity and illnesses it results in.
It is now a more serious and expensive threat to health than smoking.
Tax junk foods at a similar rate to tobacco - but good luck with that, given the power of the junk food lobby.
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30 sats \ 1 reply \ @Signal312 50m
Yeah I always snicker when I hear the words "food insecurity". Many of the kids I see around are obese or overweight. And they all seem to have some junk food in their hands.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 45m
I haven't done a deep dive into the phenomenon, but I think it's an artifact of data collection.
I believe the question about food insecurity is something like, "In the last 12 months, were there times when you worried whether your food would run out before you got money to buy more" or something like that.
So, if you at one or two times worried about the money running out, but you were pigging out on junk food at all those other times, you'd still be measured as "food insecure."
Related comment from myself regarding sociological data: #1221367
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