Mar

20

Topic: Childhood Obesity News - Benin launches fight against child obesity - Daily Nation

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A day before the world celebrated International Consumers’ Day on March 15 under the theme, “No to childhood obesity”,  the League for the Consumers’ Defence in Benin organised a meeting to focus on obesity among children in the country. According to Muriel Hans Moevi, a nurse at a communal dispensary and speaker at the meeting, children are consuming very high quantities of candy and fatty foods, and if nothing is done in 10 to 15 years, they will suffer from obesity and be at risk of chronic cardiac or coronary diseases. Ms Moevi said local people’s habit of having a cup or bowl of porridge with at least five sugar cubes for breakfast predisposes them to accumulating fat in the body. According to Consumers International, at least 22 million children below the age of five in the world are overweight or obese. Romain Houehou, president of the League for the Consumer’s Protection in Benin, said a code regulating trade in fatty foods is being drawn up by Consumers International. Benin’s consumers league is being involved in the process and intends to promote the code at the national level so that the government can implement it. Read Childhood Obesity

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