Nutrition through lifecycle
Children
Back
Healthy growth and nutrition in children
Today more than ever, nutrition appears to be a testing ground where differences and inequalities between north and south of the world measure against each other, in particular with regards to childhood. In developed countries, if on the one hand obesity and overweight are dramatically increasing among young people, on the other adults has been affecting more and more by cardiovascular diseases and diabetes (type 2), pathologies on which (bad) nutrition habits, usually acquired during childhood and adolescence, have a strong effect. In developing countries, the scenario confirms the existence of a discouraging and apparently never ending emergence: millions of children are underweight because of chronic nutrition’s deficiency and malnutrition is one of the first childish diseases.
This publication can be accessed here