consequences health crisis The feeling continues. A study conducted in Val-de-Marne showed that cases of obesity Overweight has increased sharply among the youngest since the start of the Covid-19 epidemic. Among 4-year-olds, “overweight and obesity (…) are significantly overweight in 2020-2021, compared to the previous two school years,” summarize the authors of this study, which was conducted under the auspices of the agency. public health France.
Almost twice as many children are infected
The authors examined data on nearly 50,000 children attending kindergarten in this department. These numbers come from health checks that are systematically performed in the midsection, when children are about four years old.
These findings indicate that the proportion of obese children nearly doubled in the two years roughly corresponding to the onset of the health crisis. It went from 2.8% to 4.6%. The rate of childhood overweight, a situation that covers broader criteria of obesity, also increased from 8.9% to 11.2%. The study also indicates that girls are more affected than boys.
Covid-19 main culprit?
The authors hypothesize that measures taken against Covid have favored excessive weight gain in children. “It would be interesting to see if the diet was rather deteriorated” or if this was due to a “sharp drop in activities,” the authors note.
This work is consistent with a previous US study. More broadly, it examined data on more than 400,000 young adults – between the ages of 2 and 19 – and concluded that their weight gain has, on average, been twice as fast since the start of the pandemic.
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