Global Nutrition Report Shows Obesity, Under-Nutrition Coexist In Same Nations
Inter Press Service: The Double Burden of Malnutrition
“…The first-ever Global Nutrition Report, a peer-reviewed publication released this month, and figures from the Rome-based U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) highlight a multifaceted and complex phenomenon behind malnutrition. ‘The double burden of malnutrition [is] a situation where overweight and obesity exist side by side with under-nutrition in the same country,’ according to Anna Lartey, FAO’s nutrition director…” (Schiavi, 11/23).
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