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The Sri Lankan health Ministry has rejected a study published in the British Medical Journal, The Lancet which finds that 410,000 girls in Sri Lanka are underweight and that there has been no detectable change in statistics since 1990.
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It is now the most common form of malnutrition in many countries, researchers say.
Obesity rates among youngsters quadrupled globally between 1990 and 2022 while rates among adults more than doubled, researchers in the UK found.
The total number of children, adolescents and adults worldwide living with obesity has surpassed one billion, according to a global analysis published in The Lancet.