BRUSSELS, May 12 (Xinhua) -- Obesity is European society's ticking bomb and the most worrying aspect is the trend towards obese children, European Union (EU) Health Commissioner Markos Kyprianou warned on Friday.

    "We need action on all levels and by all actors," Kyprianou told an EU-U.S. conference on obesity ending on Friday. "400,000 more children become obese every year in the EU," he added.

    The main aim of the conference is for the EU and the United States to share their experience and learn from each other on diet,physical and health issues.

    EU studies show that in Europe today, six out of the seven mostimportant risk factors for premature death are related to how a person eats, drinks and moves.

    These are blood pressure, cholesterol, body mass index, inadequate fruit and vegetable intake, physical inactivity, excessive alcohol consumption and certain kinds of cancer.

    Kyprianou said that the conference had given a new transatlantic perspective to the debate on nutrition and physical activity but added that there was no single solution to the problem.

    "Obesity is a complex problem, with many causes, and it requires many and different actions to face it," he claimed. Enditem