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Health and environmental impacts of diets worldwide globalnutritionreport.org 6 facts
measurementBetween 2010 and 2018, the prevalence of underweight decreased by 0.2% in Africa, which was the smallest decrease among all regions.
claimLower-income countries have the lowest intake levels of health-promoting foods and the highest levels of underweight.
measurementBetween 2010 and 2018, the proportion of overweight and obesity increased by 0.70%, while the levels of underweight decreased by 0.15%.
measurementDeaths attributable to being underweight increased from 953,055 in 2010 to 1,106,554 in 2018, according to the 2021 Global Nutrition Report.
measurementRisks related to total energy intake and body weight in the 2021 Global Nutrition Report analysis included obesity (2.7 million deaths), overweight (1.2 million), and underweight (1.1 million).
measurementApproximately 48% of the global population consumes too many or too few calories, with 26% being overweight, 13% being obese, and 9% being underweight.
A Scoping Review of Indicators for Sustainable Healthy Diets frontiersin.org Jan 12, 2022 2 facts
measurementAs of 2020, undernutrition in children aged under 5 years manifests as stunting in 144 million children, wasting in 47 million children, and underweight in 88 million children, according to UNICEF/WHO (2020) and WHO (2020).
referenceAbarca-Gómez et al. (2017) published a pooled analysis of 2,416 population-based measurement studies involving 128.9 million children, adolescents, and adults, which examined worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016.
Associations between dietary diversity and self-rated health in a ... link.springer.com Feb 28, 2025 2 facts
measurementBetween 2006 and 2018, the prevalence of child wasting, underweight, and stunting in low- and middle-income countries was 6.3%, 13.7%, and 29.1%, respectively.
measurementUndernutrition, including underweight, wasting, and stunting, caused nearly 1.5 million childhood deaths in 2016.
Chronic inflammation in the etiology of disease across the life span nature.com Dec 5, 2019 1 fact
measurementWorldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016 were analyzed in a pooled study of 128.9 million individuals published in The Lancet in 2017.
A Consensus Proposal for Nutritional Indicators to Assess ... - Frontiers frontiersin.org 1 fact
measurementBody mass index (BMI) is used as a measure of underweight (defined as <18.5 kg/m2) and various levels of overweight (25–29.9, 30–34.9, 35–39.9, and ≥40 kg/m2) in both men and women.