1. In children the problem expresses itself many ways.
2. The media focus children who are desperately thin.
3. Approximately 40% of all children under five in south Asia and sub-Saharan Africa are short their age.
4. Immune-system and brain-synapse development are particularly vulnerable. Any disturbance this frantic activity leaves a terrible mark.
5. Maternal and child undernutrition is the underlying cause approximately 3 million child deaths a year.
6. The prevention stunting improves performance in school.
7. Children who avoid stunting in the first two to three years of life perform better.
8. The prevention reduces poverty and adds economic growth.
9. Malnourished women are a greater risk of giving birth to malnourished babies.
10. Income growth does not take care malnutrition automatically.
11. Most parents cannot do it their own.
12. And we must develop an enabling environment to advocate for and support these interventions.
