On Wednesday, at a press conference, the National Programme for the Assessment of Physical Fitness of the Secondary School Population ("Aristotle") was presented, a nationwide programme, which is part of the effort to prevent and tackle childhood obesity.
Addressing the press conference, Health Minister Michael Hadjipandela said that childhood obesity is the most important public health problem for Cyprus in childhood, according to the Cyprus Health Profile for 2021 published by the European Health Observatory in collaboration with the World Health Organization.
Cyprus, the Health Minister continued, has been participating in the COSI childhood obesity surveillance programme for the last 10 years.
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