Mexico City, Jun 14 (Prensa Latina) Cuba's homegrown Covid-19 vaccines are among the safest in the world, including the pediatric Abdala vaccine, Mexican Undersecretary of Health Hugo Lopez-Gatell said on Tuesday.
Childhood and adult obesity: Mexico’s other epidemic
16 July 2021
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In 2016, more than 1.9 billion adults (39 per cent of the global population) were overweight, of which over 650 million were obese. According to data from the World Health Organization, in the space of just 45 years, worldwide obesity has nearly tripled
Out of all the countries of the world, Mexico ranks first in the world in childhood obesity and second in adult obesity. According to the country’s 2018 National Health and Nutrition Survey, 75 per cent of Mexicans aged 20 and over are overweight or obese. Even more alarming, 35.6 per cent of the country’s children aged 5 to 11 are overweight or obese.