Experts have called for health education to encourage Nigerians to cultivate healthy lifestyle as part of measures to prevent the steady rise in childhood and adolescents obesity, a situation that end up predisposing them to ill health later in life.
In a new study, experts found 5.8 per cent of school children and adolescents were overweight and 1.7 per cent were obese in Lagos compared to national prevalence of 3.3 per cent for overweight and 1.4 to 4.2 per cent for obesity.

 
According to the study, the prevalence of overweight and obesity in private schools were higher than in public schools. Overweight was twice as prevalent and obesity was three times as prevalent in private schools compared with public schools.
The 2016 study published in the African Journal of Diabetes Medicine, involved 513 males and 587 females aged between 10 and 19 years attending public and private secondary schools in Lagos.
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