Kid obesity soars over 1,000%

KIDS TODAY have the weight of the world on them.

A study shows there are 11 times more children and teens who are obese now than 40 years ago.

Globally, 124 million kids ages 5 to 19 years old were considered obese in 2016, up from 11 million in 1975, according to a study in the medical journal The Lancet.

The study, a collaboration between the Imperial College London and the World Health Organization, was an analysis of 2,416 population studies across 200 countries. Obesity rates, determined by bodymass index standards, rose from 0.7% for girls in 1975 to 5.6% in girls in 2016.

Just under 1% of boys were considered obese in 1975. That number jumped to nearly 8% in 2016. An additional 213 million youths worldwide were considered overweight in 2016.