Sentences with phrase «cent of all children aged»

This effect became more pronounced over time, being seen in 17 per cent of all children aged 10.

And, shockingly, 93 per cent of children aged four to eight exceed Health Canada's Tolerable Upper Intake Level.

Results from 2014 show that 31.2 per cent of children aged 2 to 15 were classed as either overweight or obese.

Nearly 40 per cent of children aged 10 and 11 in London are overweight or obese and adults in London have higher rates of obesity than comparable global cities such as New York, Sydney, Paris and Madrid.

The dangers Firstly, looking at the dangers of this increasing trend, approximately 30 per cent of children aged between two and 15 are either overweight or obese (Health Survey for England 2008; the NHS Information Centre) and this is increasing significantly.

Children's health has been hitting UK headlines recently, with Public Health England suggesting 22.6 per cent of children aged four to five and 34.3 per cent of children aged 10 - 11 are overweight or obese.

Sadly, between 15 per cent and 40 per cent of the children aged eleven living in some communities can be categorised as overweight.

The National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP) measures the height and weight of nearly one million school children in England each year, and their latest report indicates that just over 19 per cent of children aged 10 - 11 are obese, with a further 14 per cent classed as overweight.

The OFT's findings claimed that nearly 90 per cent of children aged between seven and 15 had played online games in the past six months, with half of those paying to play those titles at least once.

Australian research indicates that between four per cent and 14 per cent of children aged from 18 months to three years have mental health problems such as anxiety, social withdrawal and high levels of aggression.

It is thought to affect between three to five per cent of children aged six to nine years.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children make up less than 6 per cent of children aged 10 - 17 years, but they make up 54 per cent of children in prison in Australia.

According to Statistics Canada, Indigenous children account for just under eight per cent of all children aged four and under in Canada.

Not exact matches

«The inequitable distribution of the national revenue; the disparity in the scale of salaries (some dispose of emoluments which are an insult to the poverty of the country, while the immense majority receives a miserable pittance); the fact that a bare two per cent of the active population owns seventy per cent of the arable land; the system of recruiting our agricultural laborers, who do not even enjoy legal status; the fact that hundreds of thousands of school - age children lack basic education; the disintegration of the family; the growing immorality everywhere — all this demands bold and definitive change.»

In June this year, the NSPCC and the Children's Commission published an extensive report titled I wasn't sure if it was normal to watch it... The research undertaken by Middlesex University included a survey of children aged 11 - 16 and showed that by the age of 12, 28 per cent had viewed pornography and by the age of 15 that had risen to 65 pChildren's Commission published an extensive report titled I wasn't sure if it was normal to watch it... The research undertaken by Middlesex University included a survey of children aged 11 - 16 and showed that by the age of 12, 28 per cent had viewed pornography and by the age of 15 that had risen to 65 pchildren aged 11 - 16 and showed that by the age of 12, 28 per cent had viewed pornography and by the age of 15 that had risen to 65 per cent.

Back in 2015, a survey commissioned by ITV revealed that 12 per cent of parents of primary school aged children admitted to having pretended to practice a faith in which they did not believe to get their child into a desirable faith school.

Protein digestibility corrected amino acid score (PDCAAS) shall not be less than 70 per cent of the World Health Organization (WHO) amino acid pattern for children between the ages of two and five.

Although fats do not need to be restricted for infants, KidsHealth.org recommends that by the age of two, children should get only 30 to 35 per cent of their daily calories from fat.

The lack of or inadequate breastfeeding practices alone result in almost 12 per cent of all deaths among children under age 5.1

It's the only anxiety disorder exclusive to childhood and the prevalence rate is about 4 per cent for school - aged children and 1.3 per cent of teens, Dr. Mendlowitz says.

Children who ate peanut between the ages of four and eleven months had a 70 per cent reduced peanut allergy risk compared to children who ate the food at a lateChildren who ate peanut between the ages of four and eleven months had a 70 per cent reduced peanut allergy risk compared to children who ate the food at a latechildren who ate the food at a later stage.

Compared to children with a gestational age of 40 weeks, the adjusted relative risk of being «developmentally high risk» was 25 per cent higher at 32 - 33 weeks, 26 per cent higher at 34 - 36 weeks, 17 per cent higher at 37 weeks, and six per cent higher at 38 weeks.

While breastfeeding rates are no longer declining at the global level, with many countries experiencing significant increases in the last decade, only 39 per cent of children less than six months of age in the developing world are exclusively breastfed and just 58 per cent of 20 - 23 month olds benefit from the practice of continued breastfeeding.

Starting from today lone parents whose children are aged 12 or over will be forced to actively seek work for a minimum of 16 hours per week or risk losing 40 per cent of their benefit.

Noting that the attacks by armed herdsmen predated the current administration, the governor said the recent attacks had displaced 170,000 people with children of school age constituting 60 per cent.

While stating that there were over 110,000 displaced persons in the seven designated camps in Benue State, the governor said, «Children between ages four and eight constituted 70 per cent of the population and the conditions we saw them in are not palatable.»

«According to the Multi Indicator Coverage Survey / National Immunisation Coverage Survey (MICS / NICS) report 2016 conducted in Nigeria, only 23 per cent of children (aged 12 — 23 months) are fully vaccinated with another 37 per cent partially vaccinated.

Of the children looked after continuously for 12 months at 31 March 2011: 7.3 per cent of those aged between 10 and 17 years had been convicted or subject to a final warning or reprimand during the yeaOf the children looked after continuously for 12 months at 31 March 2011: 7.3 per cent of those aged between 10 and 17 years had been convicted or subject to a final warning or reprimand during the yeaof those aged between 10 and 17 years had been convicted or subject to a final warning or reprimand during the year.

About 37 per cent of respondents aged 16 to 24 said they would prefer to send their children to an Islamic school, compared to 25 per cent of 45 to 54 - year - olds and 19 per cent of the over 55s.

A recent survey with parents of children aged 9 - 12 carried out by the IET also found that only 7 per cent of parents would encourage their daughters to become engineers.

She said the national prevalence rate of harmful traditional practices such as child marriage was 27 per cent, as one in four women, aged between 20 and 49, were married before age 18 in 2011, with the national prevalence rate of female genital mutilation (FGM) being four per cent, according to the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) of 2011.

Scottish education secretary Fiona Hyslop announced today pilot schemes involving 35,000 children aged between five and seven years had been a success, increasing overall uptake of meals from 53 per cent to 75 per cent.

That this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Welfare Benefits Up - rating Bill because it fails to address the reasons why the cost of benefits is exceeding the Government's plans; notes that the Resolution Foundation has calculated that 68 per cent of households affected by these measures are in work and that figures from the Institute for Fiscal Studies show that all the measures announced in the Autumn Statement, including those in the Bill, will mean a single - earner family with children on average will be # 534 worse off by 2015; further notes that the Bill does not include anything to remedy the deficiencies in the Government's work programme or the slipped timetable for universal credit; believes that a comprehensive plan to reduce the benefits bill must include measures to create economic growth and help the 129,400 adults over the age of 25 out of work for 24 months or more, but that the Bill does not do so; further believes that the Bill should introduce a compulsory jobs guarantee, which would give long - term unemployed adults a job they would have to take up or lose benefits, funded by limiting tax relief on pension contributions for people earning over # 150,000 to 20 per cent; and further believes that the proposals in the Bill are unfair when the additional rate of income tax is being reduced, which will result in those earning over a million pounds per year receiving an average tax cut of over # 100,000 a year.

Forty six per cent of the children born to women who began their periods at age 10 were boys.

TS is a neurological disorder affecting around one per cent for all school - age children, who are affected by an evolving series of chronic physical and vocal tics which develop over time and become increasingly worse.

Most children aged eight in all 16 countries were happy with their lives as a whole but a minority (around 6 per cent of children) had low well - being.

5 - 15 per cent of women of child - bearing age are affected by PCOS, making it one of the most common endocrine disorders.

The study showed that more children had epilepsy when they reached the age of four to eight years with seven per cent on regular medication.

At the other end of the spectrum, the early age at which the model suggests you should start having children if you want a 90 per cent chance of having three — 23 — may be a shock to a generation who are waiting until their late twenties and early thirties to even consider the prospect.

And drug manufacturers failed to look for interactions with oral contraceptives in 88 per cent of the drugs in the survey, although one quarter of all American women of child - bearing age take them.

«Up to 60 per cent of women will start their pregnancy overweight, many women are having children at an older age, and most people have a family member with Type 2 diabetes, so traditional risk factors are starting to apply to more and more people, which prevent us from properly identifying those at a high risk.»

Brain scans of 47 people of different ages found — after taking into account overall brain sizes — that adults had 12.6 per cent more solid brain matter in this area than children did (Science, doi.org/bwwg).

Brain scans of 47 people of different ages found — after taking into account the differing overall sizes of their brains — that adults had 12.6 per cent more solid brain matter in this area than children did.

More than 19 per cent whose mothers were aged 30 or over when they gave birth had no children of their own.

Compared with women who gave birth before the age of 22, those who had their first child in their thirties were 63 per cent more likely to develop breast cancer before the menopause, and 35 per cent more likely to develop the disease afterwards.

According to figures from the Office of National Statistics, 10 per cent of children in Great Britain aged between 5 and 16 have a mental health problem, with 4 per cent of children suffering from an emotional disorder such as depression.

The latest figures, for 2014/15, show that 19.1 per cent of children in Year 6 (aged 10 - 11) were obese and a further 14.2 per cent were overweight.

The findings from the research revealed a drop - off in healthy eating habits between primary and secondary school aged children, with 72 per cent of 7 — 8 - year olds likely to eat fruit daily and only 59 per cent of 13 — 14 - year olds likely to eat fruit daily.

By the time children have reached school age, however, 99 per cent of 5 to 14 - year - olds are sitting at their desks, although that still only lifts Australia to 12th out of the 38 countries where figures are available.

Research conducted by Fit For Sport suggests that 67 per cent of children at primary school are not reaching basic levels of fitness for their age group.