Beyond wasted and stunted—a major shift to fight child undernutrition

Economic growth and child undernutrition.

Policies to reduce undernutrition include child development.

The Lancet Series on Maternal and Child Undernutrition highlights the damaging eff ects of undernutrition during the fi rst 2 years of life on children's survival, health, attained schooling, and ultimately their human capital. The Series also points out that, although there are eff ective nutritional interventions, the international nutrition system, comprising international and donor organisa...

Child Undernutrition in India

Maternal and Child Undernutrition 1 Maternal and child undernutrition: global and regional exposures and health consequences

Maternal and child undernutrition is highly prevalent in low-income and middle-income countries, resulting in substantial increases in mortality and overall disease burden. In this paper, we present new analyses to estimate the effects of the risks related to measures of undernutrition, as well as to suboptimum breastfeeding practices on mortality and disease. We estimated that stunting, severe...

Physical activity, undernutrition and child development

Although evidence is accumulating which suggests a causal relationship between undernutrition and poor development in young children (Simeon & GranthamMcGregor, 1990; Pollitt et al. 1993), the mechanism linking the two remains unclear. One hypothesis is that lack of dietary energy leads to reduced activity levels, which in turn leads to reduced exploration and subsequently results in developmen...