Worldwide!!-----For the first time, more kids are obese than underweight

According to UNICEF’s new Child Nutrition Report, about 9.4 percent of school-age kids (ages 5–19) are living with obesity, compared to 9.2 percent who are underweight.  - Pratik Pawar

• Twenty-five years ago, the gap was much wider: Nearly 13 percent of kids were underweight, while just 3 percent had obesity. 

It might feel odd to put obesity in the same bucket as underweight; one has long been seen as a problem of scarcity, the other of excess. 

But public health experts now define both as forms of malnutrition, which they describe in three dimensions: 

• not enough food, 
• too much of the wrong food, and 
• hidden hunger from micronutrient deficiencies...