Childhood obesity on the rise in the Dominican Republic, Unicef reports
Childhood obesity has surpassed being underweight as the leading form of malnutrition globally for the first time, according to the release of the Child Nutrition Report 2025 by the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef). In the Dominican Republic, the 2019 Enhogar MICS survey had already found that 8% of children under five are overweight. The …