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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And we’re off!
@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”
“@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
“Where the double burden of #malnutrition is occurring is starting to shift...the areas of affected countries is increasing in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia”
Series author Dr Laurence Grummer-Strawn @WHO
“There are many connections of undernutrition and obesity into the same aspects of ill health”
Series author Prof Jonathan Wells @ucl discusses the causal pathways and consequences for health of the double burden of #malnutrition (paper 2)
“#Malnutrition is not a series of seperate things - eg #obesity stunting #undernutrition - yet, historically #nutrition programmes have focused on either undernutrition OR hunger”
@CorinnaHawkes @FoodPolicyCity (paper 3)
.@CorinnaHawkes @FoodPolicyCity lays out a solution to double burden of #malnutrition - “Taking into account 4 drivers, double duty actions can be delivered through 4 platforms for 4 double impacts...
1. Health services
2. Social safety nets
3. Education
4. Food systems”
The double burden of #malnutrition stakeholder panel was asked how the finding’s will impact their organisation’s work and is chaired by Dr Nadeem Hasan @DFID_UK
Anna Taylor @Food_Foundation
Johanna Ralston @WorldObesity
Emily Mates @ENNonline
Our Editor @richardhorton1 closes the launch of the Series on the double burden of #malnutrition with a question for all “How do we bring #nutrition back to the centre of our discussions around our vision for health?”
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