article_snippet: However the study, assembled by academics at St Andrews University, complained that despite the increasing levels of health and well-being, adolescents now are just as likely to be fat as the generation of the 2000s.
article_snippet: Obesity rates, Obesity rates said, did not decline between 2002 and 2010.
article_snippet: The study, assembled by academics at St Andrews University (pictured), said that despite the increasing levels of health and well-being, adolescents now are just as likely to be fat as the previous generation .
article_snippet: Some countries, including Scotland, showed evidence that fewer youngsters took daily exercise in 2010 than in 2002.
article_snippet: The report said that while the overall optimistic picture seems surprising, considering that many countries faced a severe economic crisis in the last decade, policies and actions to improve public health were implemented in many countries in the same period.
highlights_snippet: However St. Andrew's study shows adolescents just as likely to be obese .
  