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Though these problems frequently co-exist to various degrees in populations, some groups exhibit one or more of these problems more seriously. It is therefore useful to examine each in turn.
In industrialized countries, nutrition related chronic diseases are among the major causes of morbidity and mortality. Undernutrition in early childhood as indicated by low
    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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