SOS – OBESITY IN CHILDREN

• Main Authors: Corina ȚIFREA, Raluca COSTACHE, Andreea IONEL
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Romanian Foundation for Business Intelligence 2016-07-01
• Series: SEA: Practical Application of Science
• Subjects: Obesity; Children; Prevention; Physical activity
• Online Access: http://seaopenresearch.eu/Journals/articles/SPAS_11_7.pdf

The current challenge of prevention and fighting obesity in children looked at by specialists in the social, medical and psychological areas is also treated by specialists in sport and physical education. Having been underestimated for a long time, overweighting and obesity represents a real threat known by the International Health Organization that classifies it as „global epidemic”. This really is a global problem: there were 1.6 billion overweight people in the world in 2005 (out of a total of 6.671 billion people), out of which at least 400 million are obese and the IHO estimates that in 2015 there were 2.3 billion overweight people out of which 700 million are obese. Obesity among children is more and more often seen at much younger ages with twice to four times the expected weight for an average child. Moreover, in Romania the number of obese primary school children have doubled in the late eight years, as written in a report given by the Institute of Public Health- as Rubin Munteanu, specialist in general surgery.