Under-nutrition and obesity: two sides of the same coin? (Top Left)

Top Left reported on The Lancet article which is part of a series on the “Double burden of malnutrition.” According to the latest estimates of the World Health Organization (WHO), around 2.3 billion people are overweight worldwide while more than 150 million children experience growth retardation because they are underfed. The research work, which is based on data collected by IFPRI, BMGF, NIH, CGIAR’s A4NH, and RTI International explains how in more than a third of the countries studied it has been observed the simultaneous presence of different forms of malnutrition.