Pediatric Infectious Diseases: Open Access

Abstract

Obesity in infancy and youngsters, how to improve health with outdoor activities and yoga. At first welcome to this unique pediatrics conference organized by Meetings International about infancy and health. We are glad to have you here as speakers and delegates contributing to share your ideas and knowledge in pediatrics. In this video presentation i want to focus on how we could prevent infancy trends like overweight and obesity, trying to improve youngsters health with positive lifestyles. In Europe 20% of young people is definitively overweight. Italy is in the worst conditions from this point of view: infact it seems that 36% of young people can be defined as overweight. USA are in similar situation: more than 30% of youngsters are overweight and 20% are obese; even under 5 years obeses are too many 14%. Of course not the whole World is in such crisis, since in Asia and in Africa these percentage are lower at all.