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#Doyouknow Maternal and Child malnutrition are among the current top risk factors for the global burden of disease and account for about one quarter of global deaths. #WHO #GlobalMalnutrition #FAO #ChildMalnutrition #ph260720
more than 50% of Under-5 deaths are preventable and majority of which are attributed to Malnutrition. Child malnutrition is still the greatest nutrition related health burden at global level. .#Under5Mortality #ChildMalnutrition #ph260720
Apart from being a major cause of Under5 mortality, malnutrition in childhood has far reaching repercussions #WHO #ChildMalnutrition #ph260720
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Watch now: Launch of @TheLancet Series on the Double Burden of #Malnutrition with @WHO hosted @CityUniLondon

Hear from @richardhorton1 @DrTedros @DFID_UK & more what findings mean for #nutrition & sustainable development

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@richardhorton1 opens the launch of The Lancet Series on the double burden of #malnutrition with @WHO

“This Series offers some practical and well evidenced recommendations around double duty actions” ImageImage
“@TheLancet series illustrates a new nutrition reality. More and more countries are facing both challenges - #undernutrition and #overweight and #obesity”

Series lead Dr Francesco Branca @WHO introduces the Series #NutritionDecade #NutritionManifesto Image
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More than 1 in 3 low- and middle-income countries face both extremes of #malnutrition – undernutrition and overweight/obesity:
New @WHO-supported report published in the @TheLancet bit.ly/2shgkV4

#NutritionDecade
Undernutrition and obesity can lead to effects across generations as both maternal undernutrition and obesity are associated with poor health in offspring bit.ly/2shgkV4

#malnutrition
#NutritionDecade
We can no longer characterize countries as low-income and undernourished, or high-income and only concerned with obesity.

All forms of #malnutrition have a common denominator – food systems that fail to provide all people with healthy, safe, affordable, and sustainable diets.
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