Double burden of obesity, undernourishment stalks world — report

PARIS, France --- Low- and middle-income countries risk seeing their development progress slashed by the double-edged sword of obesity and undernutrition, both caused by a lack of access to affordable healthy food, a report in The Lancet warned Monday. This "double burden of malnutrition", or DBM, affects more than a third of some 130 countries classed as low-and middle-income, the report in the medical journal said. More alarming, it is increasingly seen in the same household -- most commonly an overweight mother and a child stunted by undernutrition living under the same roof. Both forms of malnutrition are linked to health problems and premature death, weighing heavily on a c...

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