Nearly a fifth of America’s youth are severely overweight, the latest national data shows. The trend only got worse with millions idling indoors under Covid-19 lockdowns – even as the same policies propel food shortages in the US.
The newest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) – derived from a gold-standard health survey in which more than 2,800 children were polled – shows that 19.3 percent of American children aged between two and 19 are obese, up by about one percent from the previous national survey, according to the Associated Press.
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