I'll Probably Be Vilified for It, but This Is What I Thought when I Read that There Are More and More Fat Children

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Nearly one in ten children worldwide is overweight. A report like this is nice, but believe me, no child is overweight for fun. And neither are adults, writes Angela de Jong.

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(Paul van Vliet voice) This is Delano. Delano is just 13 years old, but he already carries three times the body weight of his peers in Botswana every day. Delano has to walk half a kilometer every day to get from school to the supermarket to buy his daily dose of croquettes and energy drinks. At school, he sometimes has to climb up and down stairs 10 times a day. Then he's exhausted. In gym class, he's always picked last. Help Delano. Yes, we're…