WHO Says 2.3bn People Overweight, 150m Children Stunted Globally - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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December 17, 2019
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 Burdenof Malnutrition in the
Lancet Medical Journal”.
According to the report, twin presence of obesity andunder-nutrition
reflect shifts in food systems worldwide, asmore than one in three
low- and middle-income countries face bothextremes of malnutrition.
The statement also stated that in low- and middle-incomecountries,
these emerging issues overlap in individuals,families, communities
and countries.
It added that the new report explored trends behind thisintersection,
known as the double burden of malnutrition, aswell 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 theWHO Series on the Double
Burden of Malnutrition comes after 12 months ofLancet articles
exploring nutrition in all its forms”.