According to the Spanish Association of Pediatrics, 26% of Spanish children aged 6 to 10 years are overweight and 19.4% are obese.
Sevilla’s heavyweights
According to a 2010 study carried out on school children between the ages of six years and twelve years, children in Sevilla are not only the most obese in Andalucia and Spain, but also in Europe.
USA no longer the fattest nation
The United States of America is apparently no longer the fattest industrialised nation on the planet, that dubious honour now falling upon Kuwait.
Fighting obesity in Torrox
The Department of Social Welfare in Torrox has launched a campaign announced last year, ‘For a million steps’, with the aim of promoting sports and healthy habits among the local population and to help fight a major XXI century epidemic, obesity.