Worldwide trends in childhood overweight and obesity.

By Youfa Wang, T. Lobstein. International Journal of Pediatric Obesity, 2006

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Physical activity and obesity in children (2011, background): “and increasingly in many parts of the developing world.”
Childhood overweight, obesity, and the metabolic syndrome in developing countries. (2007, background): “A recent review by Wang and Lobstein (30) confirmed that children in lower- and middle-income countries, especially those growing up in urban environments and following a Western lifestyle, are facing a significant and rapidly growing epidemic of childhood obesity.”
Climate Change, Global Food Security, and the U.S. Food System (2015, background): “Trends in overweight children have only recently been documented and are limited by available data, but they suggest that the prevalence of obesity since 1970 has increased for all developed countries and for a number of developing countries (Wang and Lobstein 2006).”
Ten Putative Contributors to the Obesity Epidemic (2009, positive): “Given that 50% of children in North America and 38% in Europe are projected to be overweight or obese by the year 2010 (Wang and Lobstein, 2006), the possible influence of sleep debt in children, including toddlers, cannot be ignored.”
Independent Mobility and Mode Choice for School Transportation: A Review and Framework for Future Research (2013, background): “Underlying this observation is concern over the increase in the prevalence of childhood overweight and obesity in North America and other Western countries during the past decades (Ogden et al., 2006; Shields, 2004; Wang & Lobstein, 2006).”
Children's Perceptions of the Use of Public Open Spaces for Active Free-play (2007, background): “Rising levels of obesity (Wang and Lobstein, 2006) and an increased incidence of Type 2 diabetes and other diseases of sedentary living (Trost, 2003) provide further rationales for promoting children’s physical activity.”