title: Nutritional solutions to major health problems of preschool children: how to optimise growth and development.
abstract: Despite major economic development in the last few decades, childhood nutrition remains a great challenge for the human species. A combination of undernutrition, overnutrition, and poor dietary quality affect to a variable extent all of the world's populations, and are often combined in the same areas and even in the same families. Malnutrition is part of the life of many individuals since conception and is transmitted by 1 generation to the next. Countries with lower income per capita and poor socioeconomic strata are mainly affected and, in turn, malnutrition hampers their development. The eradication of child malnutrition is crucial in the fight against poverty. This article examines whether this goal will be achieved within the time frame the United Nations has set.
authors.forename: Francesco
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Branca
mesh_terms: D000349:Africa / Q000453:epidemiology; D001208:Asia / Q000453:epidemiology; D002657:Child Development; D015362:Child Nutrition Disorders / Q000178:diet therapy / Q000453:epidemiology*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003677:Deficiency Diseases / Q000178:diet therapy / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D006815:Hunger; D044342:Malnutrition / Q000178:diet therapy / Q000453:epidemiology*; D044623:Nutrition Therapy