Thread by @WHO

Better nutrition is related to:

👧🏻 improved infant, child, and maternal health
💪🏽 stronger immune systems
🤰🏽 safer pregnancy and childbirth
🩺 lower risk of illnesses such as #diabetes and cardiovascular disease
🏃🏾‍♀️ improved longevity

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The 🌍 is off track to meet 5 of 6 nutrition targets:

♦️ 1 in 3 people are affected by at least 1 form of malnutrition

♦️ Of children < 5:
🔸149.2m are stunted
🔸45.4m are wasted
🔸38.9m are overweight

♦️ Over 40% of all 👨🏽 & 👩🏼‍🦰 are overweight or obese

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#COVID19 has fuelled the nutrition crisis, especially among women & children.

Bringing huge burdens to global systems for nutrition, including:
🩺 health
🥦 food
💙 social protection
🚨 humanitarian assistance

Here's what can be done to address this:
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Every year,
-800+ million people go hungry
-600 million fall ill from eating contaminated food
-3 billion can't afford a healthy diet
-8 million die due to unhealthy diets

🚨 #COVID19 likely made this worse🚨

Transforming #FoodSystems can help fix this⬇️

https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1419957962639032335?s=20

#FoodSystems & health are connected:
🔀from those who work 👩🏽‍🌾 in our food systems
🔀the practices used to grow, raise, transport package & dispose of our food
🔀to the quality, quantity & safety of the food we eat

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Breast milk is the ideal first food for a 👶. It's safe, clean & contains antibodies which help protect against illnesses.
#Breastfeeding is sustainable, not for profit & it helps reduce:
📉preventable deaths
📉the risk of noncommunicable diseases
📉the risk of overweight/obesity

Nutrition needs to be at the center of health systems to ensure:

✅a healthy & equitable recovery from #COVID19
✅improved nutrition over the life course
✅achievement of universal health coverage
✅resilience
✅no one is left behind

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