Malnutrition Archives

Rise in Malnutrition Must be Reversed Before it Creates Health “Catastrophe”: Experts

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Malnutrition – which includes hunger and obesity – is on the rise and may affect half the world’s population by 2035 unless governments take urgent action to reverse its spread, U.N. agencies and experts said on Thursday. The problem affects a third of the world’s population and costs the global economy an estimated $3.5 trillion a year in healthcare and lost productivity, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) says. Middle income countries are increasingly seeing both forms of malnutrition, putting a heavy burden on their purse strings in years…

Reducing Malnutrition is the Key Focus: Maneka Gandhi

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Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi on Monday said that the key focus of her ministry was to reduce malnutrition. “The key focus is to reduce malnutrition for which the WCD Ministry is holding regular consultations with the states on improving the content of food being provided to the children in anganwadis and regular monitoring of their nutrition status,” she said at the second edition of “All India Women Journalists’ Workshop” bringing together over 100 journalists from various media organisations across the country. Gandhi also gave a brief overview…

Aamir Khan Travels to Bhutan to Advocate Against Malnutrition

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Actor Aamir Khan, who is a Unicef Regional Goodwill Ambassador, took time out from his schedule to meet children affected by malnutrition here and to witness how the organisation is working to address stunting across the country. “While Bhutan has made amazing progress in areas of health and nutrition, there’s still work to be done and every child is yet to be reached,” Aamir said in a statement. Stunting, caused by chronic malnutrition, is endemic in South Asia with an estimated 38 per cent – 64 million – of children…

Too fat, Too skinny: file finds Malnutrition Fuels ailment worldwide

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a third of human beings international are both undernourished or overweight, using increasing prices of disease and piling pressure on fitness offerings, a worldwide report showed on Tuesday.rates of overweight or obese humans are growing in every place of the world, and in almost each country, in step with the 2016 worldwide nutrients document – an annual independent inventory take of the state of the world’s nutrition.Malnutrition comes in many paperwork – which include terrible toddler increase and improvement and vulnerability to infection among those who do now not get…