The World Health Organisation, WHO says over two-point-three billion
children and adults are overweight, while more than one-hundred
and-fifty million children are stunted globally.
The WHO announced this in a statement released in Geneva, on
four-paper report published on: “Double Burden
of Malnutrition in the
Lancet Medical Journal”.
According to the report, twin presence of obesity and
under-nutrition
reflect shifts in food systems worldwide, as
more than one in three
low- and middle-income countries face both
extremes of malnutrition.
The statement also stated that in low- and middle-income
countries,
these emerging issues overlap in individuals,
families, communities
and countries.
It added that the new report explored trends behind this
intersection,
known as the double burden of malnutrition, as
well as societal and
food system changes that may be causing it.
The statement also quoted the Editor-in-Chief of The Lancet,
Richard
Horton, as saying “today’s publication of the
WHO Series on the Double
Burden of Malnutrition comes after 12 months of
Lancet articles
exploring nutrition in all its forms”.
