According to a recent study, the world had 10 times as many obese children and teenagers last year than in 1975, but underweight kids still outnumbered them. The team found that there were 74 million obese boys aged 5-19 in 2016, up from six million four decades earlier. By comparison, there were 117 million underweight boys and 75 million underweight girls last year after the number peaked around the year 2000, the study said. Almost two thirds of the underweight children lived in south Asia. Obesity comes with the risk of chronic diseases such as diabetes, while underweight children are more at risk from infectious diseases.

Source: Hindustan Times October 11, 2017 09:00 UTC