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  Prevention of Overweight and Obesity in Children: | UNICEF East Asia and Pacific

Prevention of Overweight and Obesity in Children: | UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Skip to main content East Asia and Pacific Toggle navigation Global Links Visit UNICEF Global High contrast East Asia and Pacific EXPLORE UNICEF ABOUT US OUR MISSION WHERE WE WORK REGIONAL DIRECTOR TAKE ACTION CONTACT US WORK FOR UNICEF PRESS CENTRE Donate Main navigation What we do Research and reports Regional Stories Take action Search area has closed. (...) Search Close Search UNICEF Fulltext search Max Report Prevention of Overweight and Obesity in Children: Landscape Analysis and Priority Actions in Mongolia UNICEF Highlights UNICEF in Mongolia , partnered with the National Center for Public Health under the Ministry of Health to prepare a landscape analysis on prevention of overweight and obesity in children.

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  The Market for Highly Processed Food and Drink: Driving Children’s Diets in the Philippines | UNICEF

Diets dominated by highly processed products are driving the rise in childhood overweight and obesity in the country, with nearly one in ten children aged 11-19 years currently suffering from overweight or obesity. Author UNICEF Philippines Publication date March 2021 Languages English Download Download file (PDF, 5,41 MB) Related topics Nutrition Childhood obesity Philippines More to explore Press release 30 July 2021 NNC, Embassy of the Republic of Korea through KOICA, UNICEF call on sectors to support children’s nutrition Visit the page Press release 04 March 2021 Poor diets, failing food systems, and lack of physical activity are causing overweight and obesity in children Visit the page Article Malnutrition poses health and economic burden in Bangsamoro 1 in 2 children under 5 years old in the region is stunted Read the story Press release 16 October 2019 UNICEF: Many children and adolescents in the Philippines are not growing up healthily Visit the page Footer UNICEF Philippines What we do Research and reports Stories Take action About us Press centre Working for UNICEF Contact us Become a donor Social Footer Secondary Contact us Legal Footer tertiary Report fraud, abuse, wrongdoing

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  Nutrition in Western Pacific

Today the world faces a double burden of malnutrition that includes both undernutrition and overweight, especially in low- and middle-income countries. (...) The two faces of malnutrition include undernutrition, such as wasting, stunting and micronutrient deficiencies, as well as those associated with dietary imbalance and excess, such as overweight, obesity, or diet-related noncommunicable diseases (NCDs).   (...) Technical links Fact sheets Obesity and overweight Healthy diet Salt reduction Infant and young child feeding Data Nutrition targets in the Western Pacific WHO Global Database on Body Mass Index WHO Global Database on Child Growth and Malnutrition WHO resolutions Infant and young child feeding (WHA71.9) Maternal, infant and young child nutrition (WHA65.6) United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition (‎2016–2025)‎ (WHA69) Protecting children from the harmful impact of food marketing (WPR/RC68.R3) © WHO/Yoshi Shimizu Woman and her newborn baby at the National Centre for Maternal and Child Health (NCMCH) © Credits 2 out of 3 babies are not exclusively breastfed for the first 6 months © WHO/Yoshi Shimizu Midwife showing a woman how to breastfeed her newborn baby, Raja Isteri Pengiran Anak Saleha Hospital in Brunei © Credits Only one out of three newborns are put to the breast within the first hour of life. © WHO/Yoshi Shimizu Nurses showing to a mother how to introduce nutritionally-adequate and safe complementary (solid) foods at Berakas Health Center © Credits 7.2 million children under 5 years were overweight or obese in 2018 © WHO/Yoshi Shimizu School children eating snacks in the canteen. © Credits > 84 million children aged 5-19 years were overweight or obese, a 43% increase in just 6 years (2010-2016) - Our work All → Featured publications 2 April 2020 Regional action framework on protecting children from the harmful impact of food marketing in the Western...

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  Poor diets damaging children’s health worldwide, warns UNICEF

More than 2 million children under-five are wasted, or too thin for their height. 2 million children under-five are overweight or obese. About 1 in 4 adolescents suffer from anemia, most likely due to deficiencies in essential vitamins and nutrients such as iron, folic acid and vitamin A.   (...) Globally, from 2000 to 2016, the proportion of overweight children between 5 and 19 years of age doubled from 1 in 10 to almost 1 in 5. In Indonesia, over ten percent of adolescents are overweight, with levels as high as 1 in 3 by the time they reach adulthood.  

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  Indonesia: Obesity rates among adults double over past two decades

Childhood obesity is also on the rise, with one in five primary school-aged children and one in seven adolescents in Indonesia being overweight or obese, according to the 2018 national Basic Health Research Survey (RISKESDAS). (...) People living in urban areas are more likely to be overweight as access to processed food is easier. City living is also associated with more sedentary lifestyles, especially among women and girls, due to inadequate infrastructure such as narrow pavements and a lack of parks, which limit opportunities for exercising. (...) Cheap and easy access to unhealthy foods, along with exploitative marketing practices and packaging, are directly linked to growing overweight and obesity. Among both adults and children, the intake of ultra-processed foods is strongly associated with being overweight, with soda consumption particularly linked to obesity among adult men.

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  Prevention of Overweight and Obesity in Children: | UNICEF Viet Nam

Prevention of Overweight and Obesity in Children: | UNICEF Viet Nam Skip to main content Viet Nam Toggle navigation English Tiếng Việt Global Links Visit UNICEF Global High contrast Viet Nam EXPLORE UNICEF ABOUT UNICEF CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD THE CHILDREN IN VIET NAM WHERE WE WORK PARENTING REPRESENTATIVE DEPUTY REPRESENTATIVE WORK FOR US CONTACT US PRESS CENTRE Donate Main navigation What we do Research and Reports Our stories Take action Search area has closed. (...) Search Close Search UNICEF Fulltext search Max Report Prevention of Overweight and Obesity in Children: Landscape Analysis and Priority Actions in Viet Nam UNICEF Viet Nam\Truong Viet Hung Available in: English Tiếng Việt Highlights UNICEF in Viet Nam , partnered with Hanoi University of Public Health to carry out a landscape analysis on prevention of overweight and obesity in children.

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  Nutrition | UNICEF Philippines

Search results Nutrition Programme 01/24/2019 Child survival Helping children survive and thrive Press release 07/30/2021 NNC, Embassy of the Republic of Korea through KOICA, UNICEF call on sectors to support children’s nutrition Joint press release Report 07/01/2021 Landscape Analysis: Childhood Overweight and Obesity The extent of childhood overweight and obesity and priority actions for prevention Download file (PDF, 1,80 MB) Report 03/25/2021 The Market for Highly Processed Food and Drink Assessing trends in sales of highly processed food and drinks in the Philippines Download file (PDF, 5,41 MB) Report 03/25/2021 Unhealthy food marketing to children in the Philippines A study on marketing of food and non-alcoholic beverages in social media Download file (PDF, 1,10 MB) Press release 03/04/2021 Poor diets, failing food systems, and lack of physical activity are causing overweight and obesity in children Joint media release Article 11/14/2019 Malnutrition poses health and economic burden in Bangsamoro 1 in 2 children under 5 years old in the region is stunted Press release 10/16/2019 UNICEF: Many children and adolescents in the Philippines are not growing up healthily More children and young people are eating unhealthy food Article 08/19/2019 Invest in #WomenHumanitarians and watch the world change For World Humanitarian Day 2019, Kristine Gimongala of Health Organization for Mindanao shares her experiences from working in the field Press release 08/18/2019 Hundreds of mothers gather to celebrate National Breastfeeding Awareness Month Prev 1 1 2 Next Footer UNICEF Philippines What we do Research and reports Stories Take action About us Press centre Working for UNICEF Contact us Become a donor Social Footer Secondary Contact us Legal Footer tertiary Report fraud, abuse, wrongdoing

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  Poor diets damaging children’s health worldwide

Those rates go up to 62 per cent and 49 per cent, respectively, for adolescents in high-income countries. As a result, overweight and obesity levels in childhood and adolescence are increasing worldwide. From 2000 to 2016, the proportion of overweight children between 5 and 19 years of age doubled from 1 in 10 to almost 1 in 5. (...) Even in high-income countries such as the UK, the prevalence of overweight is more than twice as high in the poorest areas as in the richest areas.

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  Poor diets damaging children’s health worldwide, warns UNICEF

Those rates go up to 62 per cent and 49 per cent, respectively, for adolescents in high-income countries. As a result, overweight and obesity levels in childhood and adolescence are increasing worldwide. From 2000 to 2016, the proportion of overweight children between 5 and 19 years of age doubled from 1 in 10 to almost 1 in 5. (...) Even in high-income countries such as the UK, the prevalence of overweight is more than twice as high in the poorest areas as in the richest areas.

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  Poor diets damaging children’s health worldwide, warns UNICEF

Those rates go up to 62 per cent and 49 per cent, respectively, for adolescents in high-income countries. As a result, overweight and obesity levels in childhood and adolescence are increasing worldwide. From 2000 to 2016, the proportion of overweight children between 5 and 19 years of age doubled from 1 in 10 to almost 1 in 5. (...) Even in high-income countries such as the UK, the prevalence of overweight is more than twice as high in the poorest areas as in the richest areas.

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