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UNICEF Report on Child Nutrition
October 15 , 2019
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- UNICEF has warned that an alarmingly high number of children are suffering the consequences of poor diets and a food system that is failing them.
- It has released a report titled “The State of the World’s Children 2019: Children, food and nutrition”.
- The report finds that at least 1 in 3 children under five (or over 200 million) is either undernourished or overweight.
- Almost 2 in 3 children between six months and two years of age are not fed food that supports their rapidly growing bodies and brains.
- This puts them at risk of poor brain development, weak learning, low immunity, increased infections and, in many cases, death.
- The report provides the most comprehensive assessment yet of 21st century child malnutrition in all its forms.
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