Kutwah Moses Amram
Registered Public Health Nutritionist, Kenya
Publications
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Review Article
Worlds Malnutrition Paradox; Gaps in Looking Back and Looking Ahead
Author(s): Kutwah Moses Amram*
Objective: This paper examines paradigms in the double burden of malnutrition. It explores the speed of nutrition transition, summarizes the drifts and trends in prevalence rates between under nutrition and overnutrition. Design and Setting: Review of outcomes that focus on large scale surveys, national and global representative studies on diet, physical activity, obesogenic environment and obesity among children, adolescents and adults. Subjects: The WHO guidelines for classifying and defining overweight and obesity are used for children and adolescents and the body mass index of ≥ 25kg/m2 and 30kg/m2 are used for adult’s overweight and obesity respectively. Results: The nutrition transition shifts are examined from the 20th century to the current century in Europe. China, USA a.. Read More»