Nutritional Solutions to Major Health Problems of Preschool Children: How to Optimise Growth and Development

Abstract

Significant opportunities to improve child health globally were provided in the second half of the 20th century. However malnutrition remains a major problem and in many countries the situation seems to have worsened. In a recent report about survival rate in childhood UNICEF remained that the United Nations first Millennium Goal was to eradicate extreme poverty and to reduce the proportion of people who suffer from hunger by half between 1990 and 2015 as measured by the percentage of children under five years of age who are underweight. The first Millennium Goal of the United Nations is to eradicate extreme poverty and to reduce the proportion of people who suffer from hunger by half between 1990 and 2015 as measured by the percentage of children under 5 y old who are underweight. (excerpt)