Around 10 per cent of children across the world are obese, surpassing - for the first time - the number of those who are underweight, a major study by children’s charity Unicef has found.
Roughly 188 million children and young people between the ages of five and 19 are now thought to be affected by obesity. That figure rises to 391 million for children who are overweight, which includes those who are obese.
