{"id":136629,"date":"2021-09-24T17:38:22","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T12:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=136629"},"modified":"2021-09-27T10:59:49","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T05:29:49","slug":"around-66-children-below-2-years-dont-get-nutritious-diet-unicef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/around-66-children-below-2-years-dont-get-nutritious-diet-unicef\/","title":{"rendered":"Around 66% children below 2 years don’t get nutritious diet: UNICEF\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
What is the news?<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n

As per the report\u00a0<\/span>\u201cFed to Fail? The Crisis of Children’s Diets in Early Life\u201d\u00a0published by UNICEF<\/span><\/b>, two in every three children between six months and two years didn\u2019t get the nutritious diet needed for healthy growth.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Policies and\u00a0programmes\u00a0to improve young children\u2019s diets are not\u00a0prioritised\u00a0and are being further eroded by the COVID-19 pandemic. No country has a comprehensive set of policies, legal measures and\u00a0programmes\u00a0to improve young children\u2019s diets.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What are the findings of the report?<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n

First<\/b><\/em>,<\/em> around 27% of children aged six-eight months were not fed any solid food. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Second,<\/b><\/em>\u00a0among\u00a0children aged 6\u201323 months, around half were not fed the minimum number of meals or snacks.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Third,<\/b><\/em>\u00a0<\/em>overall, the diet of the world\u2019s children below the age of two years has not improved in the last decade.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Fourth,<\/b><\/em>\u00a0<\/em>the quality of children\u2019s diets varies widely among regions. As many as 62 per cent of children aged 6\u201323 months in Latin America and the Caribbean were fed a minimally diverse diet in 2020. In South Asia and two sub-Saharan African regions, the share was less than 25 per cent.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Fifth,<\/b><\/em>\u00a0<\/em>children in rural areas, poorer households and disadvantaged regions within countries have the least diverse diets.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Sixth,<\/b><\/em>\u00a0around one in every three young children in Australia, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Mexico, Nigeria, Serbia and Sudan were fed at least one processed or ultra-processed food or drink daily.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Seventh,<\/b><\/em> nearly 83% countries reported considerable disruptions in the coverage of services to promote nutritious and safe diets for young children during 1<\/span>st<\/span>\u00a0wave of COVID-19.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What are the various recommendations of the report?<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n

To deliver a nutritious, safe and affordable diet to every child, the report recommended the following actions:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

First<\/b><\/em>,\u00a0increasing the availability and affordability of nutritious foods.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Second,<\/b><\/em>\u00a0<\/em>implementing national standards and legislation to protect young children from unhealthy processed food and drink.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Third,<\/b><\/em>\u00a0<\/em>ending harmful marketing practices targeting children and families.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Fourth<\/em><\/strong>,<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Gambia, Kyrgyzstan, Maldives, Nepal, Sierra Leone and Timor-Leste, have recorded significant improvements in the quality of young diets of this age group over the last 10 years.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Source<\/strong>: This post is based on the article “<\/span>Around 66% children below 2 years don’t get nutritious diet: UNICEF\u00a0<\/span><\/b>” published in\u00a0<\/span>the Down to Earth<\/span><\/b>\u00a0on\u00a0<\/span>23th September 2021.<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What is the news?\u00a0 As per the report\u00a0\u201cFed to Fail? The Crisis of Children’s Diets in Early Life\u201d\u00a0published by UNICEF, two in every three children between six months and two years didn\u2019t get the nutritious diet needed for healthy growth.\u00a0 Policies and\u00a0programmes\u00a0to improve young children\u2019s diets are not\u00a0prioritised\u00a0and are being further eroded by the COVID-19… Continue reading Around 66% children below 2 years don’t get nutritious diet: UNICEF\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10328,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,9],"tags":[9116,356,9848],"class_list":["post-136629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-issues-related-to-hunger","tag-malnutrition","tag-reports-and-index","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704555733},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10328"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}