Combatting Youth Obesity: Strategies for a Healthy Generation

2023-12-23 04:49:00

Obesity is one of the major public health issues. It is all the more worrying that this disease continues to progress among young people. The phenomenon has particularly accelerated with Covid. Confinement has amplified the sedentary lifestyle which affects Generation Z, teenagers and workers under 25. ANSES (National Health Safety Agency) notes that two thirds of 11-17 year olds are exposed to “a high health risk by practicing less than sixty minutes of physical activity” per day.

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The agency also points out screen addicts, connected for more than two hours a day. An explosive cocktail when it goes hand in hand with junk food, snacking and the consumption of ultra-processed food products, often very sweet, too salty or too fatty. Unfortunately also generally the least expensive.

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