Childhood Obesity

Abstract

Imalnutrition with undernutrition at one end of the spectrum and overweight and obesity at the other. Childhood obesity is far more dangerous because it tends to track into adulthood with far reaching health related and psychological complications. WHO has remarked obesity as the most neglected epidemic of modern t i m e s w i t h s e r i o u s l o n g t e r m consequences. Although obesity can be defined in many ways, most popular clinical method of defining overweight and obesity is based on body mass index (BMI) which is calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared. Definition