The more the food, the high the malnutrition

The more the food, the high the malnutrition

 Malnutrition is a wide topic that needs to be addressed more around the world. Malnutrition has a lot of forms, includes undernutrition, inadequate diet, lack of vitamins or minerals, overweight, and obesity.

Nowadays 1.9 billion adults are overweight or obese, while 462 million are underweight. On the developed countries this problem is linked to lack of good education and health habits mainly, but on third world countries it is mainly linked to poverty as families cannot afford food that is rich in vitamins and minerals.

Although is commonly thought that this is a problem that mainly affects the non-developed countries or the developing countries, is a problem that affect all the countries in the world. Combating this problem is one of the goals of the WHO.

It is important to clarify that according to the WHO women, infants, children, and adolescents are at a particular risk of malnutrition. (WHO, n.d.)

The WHO led by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations created a 6 key point plan for solving this problem:

• creating sustainable, resilient food systems for healthy diets.

• providing social protection and nutrition-related education for all.

• aligning health systems to nutrition needs and providing universal coverage of essential nutrition interventions.

• ensuring that trade and investment policies improve nutrition.

• building safe and supportive environments for nutrition at all ages; and

• strengthening and promoting nutrition governance and accountability, everywhere.

This calls the governments for all over the world to help solve this problem and to incentive the conscious consumption of food in their countries. It is important to note that two Sustainable Development Goal are focused on nutrition and its problem. SDG 2 is ending hunger, achieving food security and improve nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture. And SDG 3 that is focused on ensuring healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all at all ages.

This means that most of the governments and international agencies are focused on solving this problem before 2030 and it gives hope to a vast quantity of children from all over the world.

REFERENCES

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/malnutrition

https://www.who.int/news-room/q-a-detail/malnutrition

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/malnutrition/