Hunger stunts Philippine children
02/05/2011A third of Philippine school children are stunted because poverty has forced them to eat too little food for years, according to a government study released this week.
The latest findings of a rolling survey carried out for decades by the government’s Food and Nutrition Research Institute reflect the general poverty rate and the boom-and-bust economic cycles of the country.
The latest data, which is for 2008 but was only released last Thursday, showed 33.1 percent of 100,000 students surveyed across the country suffered from chronic malnutrition.
This was due to them not eating enough food over a long period and led to them being shorter than they should be, although the survey did not publish specific heights..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/nation/20110205nat11.html
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