Introduction
Childhood obesity and diabetes are global public health problems that threaten the global economy and futures of individual countries, especially developing nations. In the United States alone, childhood obesity has more than doubled over the past three decades, with 18% and 21% of children aged between 6 -11 and teens being obese by the close of the year 2012. Fuelled by the increasing sedentary lifestyles, nutritional transition and rapid urbanization, the sheer prevalence rates and the unceasing pressure on the health care systems makes the twin crises both expensive to manage and hurtful to the ability of the system Continue reading...
