Addressing malnutrition in all its forms represents an integrated agenda focusing on the root causes of malnutrition at all stages of the life course. In this section you will find material on the full range of malnutrition topics including childhood and elderly malnutrition, stunting, wasting, underweight, dysphagia as well as assessment and screening tools like the Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA®).
Publications
Global Trends in Nutrition and Health Through The Life Course
In the last three years, the global pandemic has amplified lifestyle and nutritional shifts of families everywhere. While this rapid change has led to prioritization of health and wellbeing, new health challenges also came about.
Annales 79.2 - Children‘s Diets in a Changing World
The world has gone through immense and rapid changes, and this has affected how we nourish and care for our children. While nutrition has improved overall, new challenges continue to arise, like the hike in childhood obesity, overlapping nutrition
Intersections of Nutrition: Retracing Yesterday, Redefining Tomorrow
Nutrition over the past 100 years has brought about a wealth of new information that has shifted the focus from nutrition of the child as an individual, to the community and the environment. As we navigate towards solving the pertinent malnutrition
Videos
COVID-19 pandemic and nutrition status in children: A bidirectional negative relation
The COVID-19 virus has had a global effect, with almost 300 million confirmed cases by the year 2022. While this has hid mild disease and mortality for cases below the age of 19, this virus has had a multitude of effects on children indirectly, one
New Dietary Patterns Across The World And Its Consequences On Growth And Development
Assessment of dietary patterns compared to the assessment of a single nutrient of food to link to health outcomes has become increasingly popular. This not only gives a better image of the complexity and totality of a human’s food intake, compared to
Children’s Diets And Their Sustainability In A Changing World
With the large infant and childhood mortality rates in the last century, it was only in the last 20 years that major improvements have been made in terms of mortality and stunting in ages 0-5. However, this improvement appears unbalanced globally
Infographics
How to Make Children’s Diets Healthier and More Sustainable
Child nutrition has improved overall in recent decades. However, reductions in stunting and wasting have been offset by a rise in childhood obesity, making the diets of most children in most countries inadequate. Overlapping malnutrition issues are
Pediatric issues in time of pandemia: From infection to nutritional strategies
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted food systems and healthcare provisions. But what has been the impact on child nutrition and how is this being addressed? Breastfeeding during SARS Cov-2 infection as well as COVID-19 vaccination of lactating women
Gut Microbiota: No longer the forgotten organ
Gut microbiome development in early life is linked to long-term health. Bifidobacteria make up to 90% of the microbiota of healthy breastfed infants born by vaginal delivery, but factors such as C-section birth, formula feeding, antibiotic use
Conferences
Global Trends in Nutrition and Health Through The Life Course
The past three years was an unprecedented time as sudden health challenges led to a shift in dietary patterns, lifestyle and nutrition status of families all across the globe..
Now that the world is slowly opening up once more, we must plan for a
Latest News
A new joint study from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Nutrition International demonstrates how maternal nutrition supplementation can reduce the likelihood of children developing non-communicable diseases (NCDs) later in life.
Microbiota-Directed Therapy May Aid Growth in Malnourished Kids
Dietary intervention that involves the target manipulation of microbiota components may improve the growth rate in children with moderate acute malnutrition, according to new research.
