Malnutrition
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The UN estimates that 14,000 children under the age of five die of
malnutrition
and diarrhea each year.
In India, chronic diarrhea kills almost 200,000 children per year and is linked to
malnutrition
and stunted growth in 43% of children under the age of five.
The same sum could similarly be used to help the four million people who will die from
malnutrition
this year, the 2.5 million killed by indoor and outdoor air pollution, the two million who will die because they lack micronutrients (iron, zinc, and vitamin A), or the two million whose deaths will be caused by a lack of clean drinking water.
We know how to stop people from dying from malnutrition, pollution, HIV/AIDS, and malaria.
Health workers worry about sexually transmitted diseases and
malnutrition.
A rising population has been associated with starvation and
malnutrition
in some parts of the world.
Rwandan President Paul Kagame has initiated a national emergency plan to address the fundamental causes of
malnutrition.
Regional collaboration will also be key to fulfilling our commitment to succeed in fighting
malnutrition.
Simply flooding markets with cheap high-calorie, low-nutrient grains will never solve chronic
malnutrition.
Food Security Rests on TradePARIS – From farm to fork, the international community is facing growing challenges in eradicating hunger and
malnutrition.
There are also social returns, in the form of lower rates of malnutrition, because the additional crops generate more nutritional value than what is being grown currently.
Yet
malnutrition
in mothers and their young children will claim 3.5 million lives this year.
Those who survive the effects of
malnutrition
are less productive; physical and mental impairment means children benefit less from education.
Each of these policy options would address only one component of the overall
malnutrition
problem.
The final slide of the opening presentation, delivered by GTC fellow Stephen Kennedy, was a cartoon depicting two young contestants set to begin a race: one was strong and healthy, while the other was emaciated, shackled, carrying the baggage of disease, and confronting the massive barrier of
malnutrition.
The consequences of maternal
malnutrition
are far-reaching, including higher child-mortality rates, more birth defects, increased susceptibility to infection, and specific nutritional deficiencies that can lock a child into a vicious cycle of poor health early in life.
Moreover, intrauterine
malnutrition
can increase the risk of chronic conditions like obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease during adulthood.
But it would also abolish the risk of starvation and
malnutrition
in a land where too many have gone hungry for too long.
I will start by removing from its pedestal the steam locomotive that ran on the Thailand-Burma “Death Railway,” the display of which dishonors the more than 100,000 prisoners of war and forced laborers who perished from disease, malnutrition, or maltreatment in its construction.”
The US also suffers from an epidemic of
malnutrition
at the hands of the powerful US fast-food industry, which has essentially poisoned the public with diets loaded with saturated fats, sugar, and unhealthy processing and chemical additives.
But that has changed: According to the latest data from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) hunger affected 815 million people in 2016, 38 million more than 2015, and
malnutrition
is threatening millions.
Research from my think tank, Copenhagen Consensus, has long helped to focus attention and resources on the most effective responses to malnutrition, both globally and in countries like Haiti and Bangladesh.
Such rapid population growth seems likely to make it even more difficult for these countries to eradicate poverty and malnutrition, and to ensure that all citizens receive a quality education and basic health care.
And poverty, malnutrition, and under-education are far more likely to affect girls and women today than are coercive population policies.
When Nobel Laureate economists weighed up how to achieve the most good for the world in a recent project called the Copenhagen Consensus, they found that focusing on HIV/AIDS, malaria, malnutrition, and trade barriers should all be tackled long before we commit to any dramatic action on climate change.
The children died over the past decade from
malnutrition
and starvation, treatable infections, pneumonia, “accidents,” and neglect.
The Rohingya here are safe from persecution, but the threat of illness and
malnutrition
pursues them.
As the number of refugees grows daily, cases of malnutrition, especially among mothers and young children, are rising.
Malnutrition
rates were already high in northern Rakhine State before the Rohingya fled.
To prevent
malnutrition
from taking hold, the international community needs more resources and more funding across many sectors.
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