MALACCA: About 16.5% of Malaysian schoolchildren are fat – simply because many children think that being chubby is beautiful, based on research carried out by two local universities.
A research conducted by Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia on 12,000 pupils in Peninsular Malaysia found that 10.5% of children are fat and 6% are obese.
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