More than one in three low- and middle-income countries face both extremes of malnutrition (World Health Organization)

WHO reported on the Lancet journal article, Double-duty actions: Seizing programme and policy opportunities to address malnutrition in all its forms, by Corinna Hawkes, IFPRI Division Director Marie Ruel and coauthors explain key findings including exposure to undernutrition early in life followed by becoming overweight from childhood onwards increases the risk of a range of non-communicable diseases – making the double burden of malnutrition a key factor driving the emerging global health epidemics.