French children are more likely to suffer from obesity

Increasingly, there are cases of childhood obesity, French, and this trend is observed in families with low socio-economic level, experts say. The obesity rate in France is among the lowest in Europe, but in recent years in this country, violated the problem of overweight children more. In the last three decades, the rate of obesity is increasing in children. Scientists conducted a study, the data on the weight of school children studied in the 7-9 year period 2000-2007. Epidemiologists have found that 18.1% of children in the country had a higher body mass index, and 3.8% had already developed the first symptoms of chronic obesity. According to experts, obesity is a large scale and requires the involvement of the government in its decision.