CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -The campaign ‘Fight Obesity’–which will end on December 29–will entail Body Mass Index (BMI) tests for students, teaching and non-teaching staff and patients at Out Patient Departments at 16 medical colleges in various districts of Maharashtra. The initiative has been launched in collaboration with JT Foundation.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Children’s BMI Tool for Schools is an Excel spreadsheet intended for use by a school, child care, and other professionals who want to compute Body Mass Index (BMI)-for-age for a group of up to 2, 000 children (metric version) or 20, 000 children (U.S. version).

Detailed explanation-3: -In Assam, 10.1% of the population is overweight. The percentage of people with BMI higher than or equal to 30 (obese) in the 18-59 age group is the highest in Uttarakhand (4.7%) and the lowest in Bihar (0.6%). In Assam, the figure stands at 1.3%.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Childhood Obesity Trailblazer Programme aims to: share learning and best practice to encourage wider local action. develop solutions to local obstacles and consider further actions government can take to enable ambitious local action and achieve change at scale.

Detailed explanation-5: -BMI is an important tool to identify childhood obesity. Carrying extra weight as a child or teenager can pose significant health risks, both during childhood and into adulthood.