comments

Increased risk of early death

The mortality risk of children who are even mildly underweight is increased, and severely underweight children are at even greater risk.

RELATED ARTICLESExplain
⌅
Agriculture, food and land use
⌃
Improving Diet and Nutrition
⌃
1. Challenges for global diet & nutrition
⌃
Large-scale malnutrition in developing and developed countries
⌃
Consequences of malnutrition
■
Increased risk of early death
⇥
1 billion people are overweight and 0.5 billion people are obese
⇥
2 billion people are underweight and 1 billion are hungry
⇥
Increased risk of infectious diseases
□
Delayed / impaired mental development
□
Early onset of dementia
□
Impaired immune system
□
Increased risk of infectious diseases
□
Increased risk of Non-Communicable Diseases
□
Intergenerational cycle of malnutrition
□
Malnutrition is a silent killer – masked by other surface causes
□
Obstetric complications
□
Reduced economic productivity at national level
□
Graph of this discussion
Enter the title of your article


Enter a short (max 500 characters) summation of your article
Enter the main body of your article
Lock
+Comments (0)
+Citations (0)
+About
Enter comment

Select article text to quote
welcome text

First name   Last name 

Email

Skip