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About half a million children in Europe are suffering classic middle-age health problems because they are too fat, according to estimates released Wednesday.
Obesity among European children has been on the rise in the past 15 years, but experts now are starting to see the health consequences emerge on a large scale.
In a new analysis presented by International Obesity Task Force on Wednesday at the start of the European Congress on Obesity, experts reported that the combination of dangerous conditions called “metabolic syndrome”–high blood pressure, raised cholesterol and poor blood sugar regulation–is increasingly being seen alongside childhood obesity.
