In many countries of the world, the proportion of children suffering from obesity is growing. And in the UK, there has been a 50% increase in the number of young patients with type 2 diabetes.
Charitable society Diabetes UK recorded that the increase in the number of obese children almost in a spiral provoked a similar jump in young victims of type 2 diabetes. So, if in 2015/16 the number of children who were treated in pediatric diabetes departments of hospitals in England and Wales was 621, then in 2020/21 it has grown to 973. This is an increase of 57% in just 5 years, and experts call it impressive concerns.
Representatives of the charitable society accuse the authorities of not paying enough attention to the health of children and call for more targeted measures to combat childhood obesity. In addition, the country is now experiencing a cost of living crisis caused by a sharp rise in prices, this may also lead to more pronounced problems in the near future, experts believe. Lack of money in families will provoke a shift to fast food, which is much cheaper than healthy foods. Children love all kinds of burgers and hot dogs, but this is a direct path to obesity, which threatens with irreversible health changes.
Statistics show that the number of obese children aged 4 and 5 years has increased by 46% in just one year. Whereas previously only one in every 10 children was obese by the time they entered school, this proportion has now risen to one in seven. At the same time, it is obesity that provokes up to 85% of cases of type 2 diabetes, as studies show. (READ MORE) 
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