Every tenth child in the Czech Republic obese

Every tenth child in the Czech Republic is obese, and 15% are overweight, according to a new study by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development on the health of citizens in 23 states. The study ranks the Czech Republic ninth in terms of percentage of overweight children. In the views of doctors interviewed by the daily Mladá fronta Dnes, the situation is due not to heavy consumption of fast food, as is frequently speculated, but rather to the lack of time that children spend outdoors. The United States took first place on the list. Slovakia, on the other hand, figured third from last.