birthweight and weight at 1 year,
increasingly appears as a risk factor for abdominal fat, obesity,
hypertension and increased mortality from cardiovascular disease.
The prevalence of such nutrition-related chronic diseases has in fact been
rising rapidly in many countries of the South and is a new area of
preoccupation. The current lecture will however only address the problems
other than nutrition-related chronic diseases listed above.
The just released 'State of the
Worlds Children '98 by UNICEF
underlines the opportunities provided by
increased knowledge and experience in nutrition to better the lives of
most of the world's population.
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