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Obesity as a form of malnutrition: over-nutrition on the Uganda “malnutrition” agenda
The objectives were to highlight the burden of overweight and obesity as an additional area of importance for the malnutrition agenda in Uganda and to provide evidence-based considerations for stakeholders involved. Introduction: Mirroring other Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs), Uganda is ex...
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The African Field Epidemiology Network
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5697987/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29184601 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2017.28.49.11176 |
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author | Ngaruiya, Christine Hayward, Alison Post, Lori Mowafi, Hani |
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description | The objectives were to highlight the burden of overweight and obesity as an additional area of importance for the malnutrition agenda in Uganda and to provide evidence-based considerations for stakeholders involved. Introduction: Mirroring other Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs), Uganda is experiencing a “double burden” of over-nutrition related issues - both obesity and overweight, and related non-communicable diseases (NCDs) alongside the under-nutrition that has long plagued the country. Despite the commonplace assumption that under-nutrition is the predominant form of malnutrition in Uganda, we explore recent literature that in fact, challenges this notion. While food insecurity has contributed to the under-nutrition problem, a lack of dietary diversity also has a demonstrated role in increasing over-nutrition. We cannot afford to ignore over-nutrition concomitant with stunting and wasting in the country. Increase in the burden of this less acknowledged form of malnutrition in Uganda is critical to investigate, and yet poorly understood. A move towards increased regionally targeted over-nutrition research, funding, government prioritization and advocacy is needed. |
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spelling | pubmed-56979872017-11-28 Obesity as a form of malnutrition: over-nutrition on the Uganda “malnutrition” agenda Ngaruiya, Christine Hayward, Alison Post, Lori Mowafi, Hani Pan Afr Med J Essay The objectives were to highlight the burden of overweight and obesity as an additional area of importance for the malnutrition agenda in Uganda and to provide evidence-based considerations for stakeholders involved. Introduction: Mirroring other Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs), Uganda is experiencing a “double burden” of over-nutrition related issues - both obesity and overweight, and related non-communicable diseases (NCDs) alongside the under-nutrition that has long plagued the country. Despite the commonplace assumption that under-nutrition is the predominant form of malnutrition in Uganda, we explore recent literature that in fact, challenges this notion. While food insecurity has contributed to the under-nutrition problem, a lack of dietary diversity also has a demonstrated role in increasing over-nutrition. We cannot afford to ignore over-nutrition concomitant with stunting and wasting in the country. Increase in the burden of this less acknowledged form of malnutrition in Uganda is critical to investigate, and yet poorly understood. A move towards increased regionally targeted over-nutrition research, funding, government prioritization and advocacy is needed. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2017-09-20 /pmc/articles/PMC5697987/ /pubmed/29184601 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2017.28.49.11176 Text en © Christine Ngaruiya et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Essay Ngaruiya, Christine Hayward, Alison Post, Lori Mowafi, Hani Obesity as a form of malnutrition: over-nutrition on the Uganda “malnutrition” agenda |
title | Obesity as a form of malnutrition: over-nutrition on the Uganda “malnutrition” agenda |
title_full | Obesity as a form of malnutrition: over-nutrition on the Uganda “malnutrition” agenda |
title_fullStr | Obesity as a form of malnutrition: over-nutrition on the Uganda “malnutrition” agenda |
title_full_unstemmed | Obesity as a form of malnutrition: over-nutrition on the Uganda “malnutrition” agenda |
title_short | Obesity as a form of malnutrition: over-nutrition on the Uganda “malnutrition” agenda |
title_sort | obesity as a form of malnutrition: over-nutrition on the uganda “malnutrition” agenda |
topic | Essay |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5697987/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29184601 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2017.28.49.11176 |
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