Study highlights obesity levels in children

One in five children in Sweden is overweight, and that there is a link between low levels of education and overweight children, according to the country's first ever national study of the prevalence of overweight and obesity in schoolchildren. Published online in the journal Obesity Reviews, the study was part of a European project, the World Health Organisation (WHO) European Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative (COSI), that involved 17 European countries.