nutrition

P!nk visits with children during a trip to Haiti with UNICEF.
UNICEF USA

Renowned recording artist P!nk named newest UNICEF Ambassador

1 December 2015
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has appointed Grammy award-winning recording artist P!nk as the newest UNICEF Ambassador, and announced that she will build on her current role as the agency’s Kid Power National Spokesperson to raise awareness about its lifesaving health and nutrition programmes around the world.
Community volunteers measure a child with malnutrition at a food distribution centre in the Rwanda camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs), near Tawila, North Darfur. UN File Photo/Albert González Farran

Nuclear techniques to help better understand causes of stunting

18 November 2015
General News

Work is underway to try and identify reasons for child stunting beyond poor nutrition, and the answer may be found with nuclear technology according to the UN.

In 2014, one in every four children under five years of age was stunted, a total of 159 million globally.

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World Bank File Photo/Julio Pantoja

Scientists ponder role of bacteria in nutrition

30 June 2015
General News

What’s the relationship between a type of bacteria found in the human stomach and nutritional status?

That’s what the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency and scientists are trying to establish.

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The Mediterranean diet’s focus on vegetable oil, cereals, vegetables and pulses, and moderate intake of fish and meat, has been associated with long and healthy living.
FAO/Ami Vitale

An age-old model of healthy living, the Mediterranean diet is now under threat – UN

11 June 2015
The Mediterranean region is undergoing a “nutrition transition” away from its traditional diet, long revered as a model for healthy living and sustainable food systems and known for preserving the environment and empowering local producers, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has warned.
This picture was taken in the north of Vietnam at Sapa Market, where WFP found many children for whom a daily family meal still remains a mirage.
WFP/Roberta Sassolini

UN agency photo competition shines spotlight on ‘family meal’ in achieving 'Zero Hunger'

23 February 2015
Scenes of families eating together in Burundi, Laos and the Philippines today won a photo competition judged by celebrity chef Jamie Oliver aimed at demonstrating “the simple yet powerful role provided by sitting together and eating as a family,” the World Food Programme (WFP) announced.