As obesity has turned into a major health concern worldwide and particularly in higher-risk countries such as the United States, Mexico and the United Kingdom, nutrition studies in this day and age will often deal with this ailment, including the correlation between obesity and age.

These days there are all kinds of studies to understand better obesity and age, as well the effects of this disease and even how those who suffer it can properly get cured, including the recent invention of an electronic diet pill and the findings that pterostilbene (a compound found in red wine and blueberries) could become a treatment for obesity.

According to Science Daily, the latest discovery comes regarding obesity and age, as British scientists from the University of Cambridge and University College London recently published a paper entitled "How Has the Age-Related Process of Overweight or Obesity Development Changed over Time? Co-ordinated Analyses of Individual Participant Data from Five United Kingdom Birth Cohorts" on PLOS Medicine.

NHS reports that, for the obesity age study, researchers created a survey looking at data comprised between 1946 and 2001, examining a total of 273,843 records of weight and height for residents of the United Kingdom in this time period for five different studies ... and the results found that those born between 1991 and 2001 were far more likely to be obese by the age of 10 than their parents and grandparents.

In fact, BBC reports that the obesity age study shows that those born from the 80s forward were as much as three times more likely to become obese during childhood, while the median for previous generations' overweight had been well into their forties, decreasing by generation for about ten years - until ultimately reaching childhood.

Currently, figures in the UK show that about a third of primary school students will join this stage with obesity, as it seems like obesity age has decreased once more.