by Patrick GALEY Agence France-Presse PARIS, France (AFP) – One in five deaths globally are linked to poor diet, experts said Thursday, warning that over consumption of sugar, salt and meat was killing millions of people every year. The United Nations estimates that nearly a billion people worldwide are malnourished, while nearly two billion are “over-nourished”. But the latest study on global diet trends, published in The Lancet, showed that in nearly every one of the […]
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1 in 3 of global population malnourished
Sept. 16 (PNA/Xinhua) — “When one in three of us is held back due to malnutrition, we as families, communities, and nations cannot move forward,” Lawrence Haddad, lead author of the Global Nutrition Report and senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) said Tuesday at a press briefing in London. One in three members of the global population is malnourished, and the problem exists in every country on the planet, according […]
