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This is the increase in the number

of overweight and obese children

in Africa since 2000

1 in 3 children

in the European region

was overweight or obese in 2020**.

39

million children

under the age of 5

were overweight or obese

in 2020

50%

of overweight and obese

children under 5 were living

in Asia in 2019*.

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Metabolic diseases are pathologies

caused by a deficiency or

dysfunction of certain enzymes

required for metabolic reactions

to take place within cells.

Obesity, diabetes and lipid disorders

are the most well-known examples.

At a time when the WHO calls

childhood obesity an epidemic,

what role can research play?

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