| Comment | Thanks for the link.
> However, Davies added that biological and social factors, like health care and ethnicity, also significantly affect which children are most vulnerable to obesity. If the wealth gap continues to widen, as many as 33% of children in the most deprived areas could be obese by 2030, she said.
This is in line with the NHS report, which found that there are twice as many obese children living in "deprived areas" than in more affluent areas. The difference in rate for severe obesity is even more extreme -- it's more than four times higher for children who live in the most deprived communities.
> "Combined overweight and obesity prevalence ranged from 41.5% for children living in the most deprived areas to 24.1% for children living in the least deprived areas," the report found.
Well would you look at that. |
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