Editorial: child obesity

Recently released results from the 2011–13 Australian Health Survey(1) show that in 2011–2012, 25.3% of children aged 5 to 17 years were overweight (17.7%) or obese (7.6%), with girls (27.1% overweight/obese) doing somewhat worse than boys (23.6% overweight/obese). Although this is a high proportion of children who were overweight or obese, the good news is that it had not increased since 2007–2008. Globally, childhood overweight and obesity increased dramatically between 1990 and 2010(2), hence the interest we see in this topic as expressed in submitted articles