40% of Sardinians have overweight (30%) and obesity (10%) problems. A slightly lower figure than the national average (46%).
This is what emerges from the elaborations carried out by Coldiretti Sardinia on the data of the Higher Institute of Health relating to the two-year period 2020-2021 on the occasion of the World Obesity Day which is celebrated today. 24.6% of Sardinian children have problems with overweight, obesity and severe obesity , according to the Okkio alla Salute data for 2019, the surveillance system on overweight and obesity and related risk factors in primary school children (6-10 years). Specifically, 18.2% are overweight, 4.5% are obese and 1.9% are severely obese.
According to Coldiretti, the pandemic has had a major impact in recent years, «which has imposed a radical change in lifestyle and consumption habits and which has also had an effect on the scale, where the tendency to eat more, driven by the greater time spent within the walls of the house, was not compensated by adequate physical activity ». In Italy, only one in three children consumes vegetables every day (31.3%), while 7.8% say they bring them to the table less than once a week and 6% never eat them, according to the analysis carried out from Coldiretti on the latest report dedicated to childhood obesity by the World Health Organization. Also worrying is the fact that less than half of Italian children (45.2%) consume fruit every day, while 4.6% declare that they bring it to the table less than once a week and 3.6% do not never eat it.
(Unioneonline/F)
