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Can someone please fix the following claims in the health section? My account is too new to make edits on this page.

The Obesity and malnutrition section reads:

"Only two-fifths of infants are exclusively breastfed, as recommended by pediatricians and nutritionists, while the sale of formula milk jumped 40% globally. In middle-income countries such as Brazil, China, and Turkey, that number is 75%"

"Even though obesity was virtually non-existent in poor countries three decades ago, today, at least ten percent of children in them suffer from this condition."

These claims are misleading and not true to the source, which states:

"And yet, only two-in-five infants under six months are exclusively breastfed, as recommended. Sales of milk-based formula have risen worldwide by 40 percent, and in upper middle-income countries such as Brazil, China and Turkey by nearly three-quarters."

"The problem was virtually non-existent in poor countries 30 years ago, but today at least 10 percent of under five year olds are overweight or obese in three-quarters of low-income nations."

There may be other issues in this paragraph, but these are the two claims that I checked.

I am new to contributing to Wikipedia so am unsure whether this is the appropriate place to bring this up or whether there might be greater concerns surrounding this contributor's edits given these misquoted claims that should be checked. Tmar196 (talk) 05:33, 14 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Tmar196: You have 10 edits now so you can modify this article yourself.

Since you're new to Wikipedia, note that this text is very much not an example of how Wikipedia content should be written. Sources should be summarized in your own words. This section uses close paraphrasing, which may be a copyright violation depending on how extensive the use is. Dan Bloch (talk) 07:19, 14 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

i believe that a reference should be made at the top of the page, In the main description, to the fact that a lot of people call this generation 'Covid Generation'. A simple Google search will show that there are countless sources to back up this claim. Will2911 (talk) 09:26, 14 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Korakys: You say that the graphics is updated annually. But the description page clearly says the data comes from the 2020 World Population Data Sheet. Please verify and modify as appropriate. Thank you! Nerd271 (talk) 17:39, 14 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Considering I both created the map and wrote the original caption I should know what is accurate here. The information was in the file history descriptions but I guess that is not enough. Changed! —Korakys (talk) 01:04, 15 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]