Dr Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) has decried the global increase in childhood obesity. She said this in her opening address to the 67th World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland.
The WHO voiced her deep concern about the
increase worldwide of childhood obesity, with numbers climbing fastest
in developing countries.
“As the 2014 World Health Statistics report
bluntly states, ‘Our children are getting fatter’,” she said.
To gather the best possible advice on dealing with this
crisis, Dr Chan announced that she has established a high-level
Commission on Ending Childhood Obesity. The Commission - co-chaired by
Sir Peter Gluckman, Chief Science Advisor to New Zealand’s Prime
Minister, and Dr Sania Nishtar, founder of Pakistan’s health policy
think tank, Heartfile – will produce a consensus report specifying which
approaches are likely to be most effective in different contexts around
the world. The recommendations of the report will be announced at next
year’s Health Assembly.
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