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Healthy growth and nutrition in children

Barilla Center

Published in : 2010

Available in : English

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 deseases

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Originally posted at : Barilla Centre

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Themes: Diet and lifestyle, general, Micronutrients, general, Nutrition and health/disease, general, Nutrition planning, policy and programme, general, Overnutrition, general, School age nutrition and adolescents , general, Undernutrition, general, Dietary diversity, Dietary recommendations, Energy dense nutrient low diet, Food and nutrition policies and strategies, Food culture, Food culture, Growth standards, Healthy diet, Local foods, Local foods, Local foods, Nutrition curricula, Nutrition transition, Nutrition transition, Nutrition transition, Nutritional requirements , Nutritional requirements, Obesity and overweight, Physical activity, Programmes, School feeding, School feeding