nutrition

Waistlines expanding as Mediterraneans shun healthy diet, UN agency says

29 July 2008
Hailed by experts as keeping people slim, healthy and long-lived, the Mediterranean diet has followers all over the world – but is increasingly disregarded around the region, according to a senior economist with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
Severe malnutrition affects 14 per cent children under five in Togo

UNICEF begins new phase of campaign to reduce malnutrition in Togo

15 June 2008
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has launched the second part of its multi-phase campaign to detect and treat widespread malnutrition in Togolese children.