A professor of Pediatrics at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Agozie Ubesie, has expressed concern that while the country has grappled with the cycle of undernutrition for a long time, the rising incidence of overnutrition is creating the double and triple burdens of childhood malnutrition in Nigeria.
He said this while delivering the 191st inaugural lecture of the university at the Enugu Campus titled 'The Burden of Childhood Malnutrition and the Bane of a Developing Economy: Breaking the Barriers to Ending a Cycle'.
According to him, over 820,000 children's lives could be saved yearly among children under five years if all children from 0-23 months were optimally breastfed. He maintained that as the health care paradigm shifts from treatment to preventive, cost-effective measures like appropriate breastfeeding practices, maternal and infant nutrition, and adequate complementary diet can significantly reduce childhood morbidities and mortalities.
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