WHO: child and adolescent obesity

At 9am today, the World Health Organization will release its 1st guidelines addressing the sharp rise in obesity among children, setting out how health systems and health workers can deliver timely, evidence-based and people-centred care. In 2024, 170million children aged 5-19 years were living with obesity: 70million children aged 5-9 years and 100million aged 10-19 years. See also Reuters on WHO endorses lifestyle changes over GLP-1 drugs in child obesity fight and the BBC on WHO guidelines warn against obesity drugs for children.