Poor diet means one in three people worldwide are now undernourished
The world is in the grips 1 of a malnutrition crisis -fuelled by obesity as well as starvation, a new study has warned.
The Global Nutrition Report for 2016 said every country is facing a 'serious public health challenge' from malnutrition.
The study of 129 countries found one in three people suffer from malnutrition in some form with it becoming 'the new nor-mal'.
Malnutrition is a serious condition, which occurs when a person's diet does not contain the right amount of nutrition.
While it is traditionally associated with people not having enough to eat, hun-dreds of millions of people are now malnourished because they are over-weight with too much sugar, salt or cholesterol in their blood.
The report said malnutri-tion is the biggest risk fac-tor for the global burden of disease.
While progress has been made in terms of children starving and having stunt-ed growth, the authors of the report said there was a `staggering global challenge' caused by soaring obesity levels.
Professor Corinna Hawkes, who co-chaired the research, told the BBC the study was "redefining what the world thinks of as being malnourished". "You have outcomes like you are too thin, you're not growing fast enough... or it could mean that you're overweight or you have high blood sugar, which
leads to diabetes," she said.
The annual study said many countries were on course to reduce stunted growth and the number of underweight children through improvements in agriculture, health care and education as well as water and sanitation.
But it said taclding obesi-ty - linked to a string of dis-eases such as heart dis-ease, cancer and diabetes -was difficult to address. Now the number of chil-dren under five who are overweight is catching up the number who are underweight.
It concludes that there needs to be more political commitment and invest-ment if the world is to reach nutrition targets. *Culled from DailMailUK online
Source: The Guardian News
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