The problem of obesity and overweight among children and youth in the world

Chilimoniuk Zuzanna, Borkowska Aleksandra, Chałupnik Aleksanrda, Raksa Karolina, Sobstyl Anna, Piecewicz Szczęsna Halina. The problem of obesity and overweight among children and youth in the world. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2018;8(9):1541-1547 eISNN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1436406 http://ojs.ukw.edu.pl/index.php/johs/article/view/6102 https://pbn.nauka.gov.pl/sedno-webapp/works/879527 The journal has had 7 points in Ministry of Science and Higher Education parametric evaluation. Part b item 1223 (26/01/2017). 1223 Journal of Education, Health and Sport eissn 2391-8306 7 © The Authors 2018; This article is published with open access at Licensee Open Journal Systems of Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author (s) and source are credited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non commercial license Share alike. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper. Received: 02.08.2018. Revised: 18.08.2018. Accepted: 15.09.2018. The problem of obesity and overweight among children and youth in the world Zuzanna Chilimoniuk, Aleksandra Borkowska, Aleksanrda Chałupnik, Karolina Raksa, Anna Sobstyl, Halina Piecewicz-Szczęsna Chair and Department of Epidemiology and Clinical Research Methodology, Medical University of Lublin Corresponding author: Halina Piecewicz-Szczęsna, e-mail: h.piecewicz@umlub.pl ORICID ID: Zuzanna Chilimoniuk: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8261-0192 Aleksandra Borkowska: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0950-2176 Aleksandra Chałupnik: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4249-470X Karolina Raksa: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5571-1035 Anna Sobstyl: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0330-5742 Halina Piecewicz-Szczęsna https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0573-7226 Abstract Childhood obesity is one of the most difficult public health issues. According to "The Lancet" magazine, there are 124 million obese children in the world. The frequency of this disease in developed countries, including Poland, is constantly increasing. We can already talk about the obesity epidemic. Despite additional diseases, obesity has an economic impact in terms of combating its complications. Therefore, it is necessary to search for unknown risk factors as well as methods of their treatment. In order to obviate this disease, more and more preventive actions are being organised. However, education is not enough - joint actions undertaken by the authorities, society and representatives of the food industry are needed. Keywords: children obesity, overweight, health educatio