Overweight an emerging concern with fewer children stunted in Bangladesh

[Black_cats]

Overweight an emerging concern with fewer children stunted in Bangladesh

HEALTH
Mohsin Bhuiyan & Muhammad Nafis Shahriar Farabi
05 May, 2021, 10:45 pm
Last modified: 05 May, 2021, 11:12 pm

Overweight an emerging concern with fewer children stunted in Bangladesh

Stunting affected growth of more than 30% or 4.3 million children under the age of five in Bangladesh last year, according to the latest estimate of child malnutrition. Although the number of stunted children has been declining from 9.1 million in 2000 accounting for 56% of the children at the...

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Stunting affected growth of more than 30% or 4.3 million children under the age of five in Bangladesh last year, according to the latest estimate of child malnutrition.

Although the number of stunted children has been declining from 9.1 million in 2000 accounting for 56% of the children at the time, the prevalence rate is still very high.

A child suffers from stunting when he is shorter than his peers mainly due to prolonged malnutrition. He may also be burdened with a weak immune system and poor brain functioning.

Over the last two decades, overweight has emerged to be another major issue of concern as the children affected by it increased 2.5 times, as per the 2021 edition of the Unicef, WHO and the World Bank's Joint Malnutrition Estimates (JME) report released on 4 April.

In 2020, an estimated 2.1% or 0.30 million children in the country were overweight, meaning they were heavier than what is considered normal for their height, while it was just 0.7% or 0.11 million in 2000.

Globally, there were 38.9 million children who were overweight in 2020, an increase of nearly 6 million since 2000.

On the other hand, the number of stunted children declined significantly during the time from 203.6 million to 149.2 million.
The global lenders said the estimates had excluded impacts of Covid-19.

The pandemic is expected to exacerbate all forms of malnutrition due to worsening household income, especially in the vulnerable population, inaccessibility of nutritious food, disruptions in essential nutrition services, and reduced physical activity.

Bangladesh's progress in attaining SDG 2.2
Sustainable Development Goal 2 is to achieve "zero hunger" by 2030. Target 2.2 specifically focuses on ending malnutrition among children under 5. This 2.2 subsection has 3 indicators used to monitor stunting, wasting and overweight.

The 2025 target includes lowering the number of children, who are stunted, by 40% while the 2030 target is to reduce it by 50%.

The baseline year is 2012 for measuring the improvements. About 5.7 million children under 5 had the debilitating physical condition that year. That means the number decreased by 24.6% by 2020.

Bangladesh has to fast track improvement on malnourishment to reach the 2025 and 2030 goals tied to stunting.

However, it is "on track" to achieve the "overweight" sub-goal. The 2025 target is to maintain the childhood overweight prevalence at less than 3%.

Overweight children under 5 accounted for 1.5% in 2012.

More than half of all children affected by wasting live in South Asia.

In 2020, 45.4 million children were affected by wasting globally, meaning they were too thin for their height due to poor intake of nutrients, of which 25 million live in South Asia and 11 million in Sub-Saharan Africa.

The latest data showed that about 9.8% or 1.42 million children were affected by wasting in Bangladesh in 2019.

 

[Destranator]

Stop eating rice and deep fried food moron Bengalis! Start by going without them for a week and see the difference it makes.

 

[Bilal9]

Stop eating rice and deep fried food moron Bengalis! Start by going without them for a week and see the difference it makes.

This is true.

Diet makes a big difference but these guys have no field to play in - in Dhaka. The kids get practically no exercise. Just video games and watching masala stuff on Z all day...

 

[Saiful Islam]

Stop eating rice and deep fried food moron Bengalis! Start by going without them for a week and see the difference it makes.

It's not the food imo, it's the lavish and sedimentary lifestyle they attempt to live. They perceive the western world to be luxury - when it's far from that.

 

[Michael Corleone]

This is what happens when you give your population access to processed food

 

[Bilal9]

It's not the food imo, it's the lavish and sedimentary lifestyle they attempt to live. They perceive the western world to be luxury - when it's far from that.

I suggest some of the upper middle class kids get to work for a living. In fast food joints, carpentry (for boys) or even hair/beauty salons (for girls). American kids learn "wood shop" in tenth grade onward I believe.

And mandatory sports from KG all the way to college (10th to 12th grade in Bangladesh).

If they have to replicate first world, just go all the way.

 

[Saiful Islam]

I suggest some of the upper middle class kids get to work for a living. In fast food joints, carpentry (for boys) or even hair/beauty salons (for girls). American kids learn "wood shop" in tenth grade onward I believe.

And mandatory sports from KG all the way to college (10th to 12th grade in Bangladesh).

If they have to replicate first world, just go all the way.

Living in a rural I have noticed they opt to get an electric rickshaw to bazars even though they are less than 0.3m, here even with automated environments they're still is major physical graft to do.

I was a ramp agent for 2 years, they say your back does not last 10 years in the job. It was physically demanding and a physical trade instills discipline in one self. They just want Londoni/Mericani ££$$.

 

[bluesky]

I suggest some of the upper middle class kids get to work for a living. In fast food joints, carpentry (for boys) or even hair/beauty salons (for girls). American kids learn "wood shop" in tenth grade onward I believe.

And mandatory sports from KG all the way to college (10th to 12th grade in Bangladesh).

If they have to replicate first world, just go all the way.

Do you really think any rich/upper-middle class BD mother is to allow her kids to do part-time jobs in BD that you have suggested? It is below the esteem of their so-called family status. Their relatives will also criticize and shun them.

They want their kids to become doctors, engineers, judges/magistrates, administrators, and the likes. So, why physical activities?

They do not think physical exercise or activities are necessary. The children's only job should be to memorize page after page and pass the exams with good grades.

The result is fat as well as stunted kids. I have met one BD student here doing M.S/Doctorate whose face is adult but his body looks like a child with very narrow shoulders. He is stunted not in height but in width. It really surprised me. All because of the habit of memorizing and no physical activities.

Nowadays Dhaka and even the District towns have little open space/playground where school students can play football or other games.

 

[Bilal9]

Do you really think any rich/upper-middle class BD mother is to allow her kids to do part-time jobs in BD that you have suggested? It is below the esteem of their so-called family status. Their relatives will also criticize and shun them.

They want their kids to become doctors, engineers, judges/magistrates, administrators, and the likes. So, why physical activities?

They do not think physical exercise or activities are necessary. The children's only job should be to memorize page after page and pass the exams with good grades.

The result is fat as well as stunted kids. I have met one BD student here doing M.S/Doctorate whose face is adult but his body looks like a child with very narrow shoulders. He is stunted not in height but in width. It really surprised me. All because of the habit of memorizing and no physical activities.

Nowadays Dhaka and even the District towns have little open space/playground where school students can play football or other games.

Yeah I guess you are right.

The families won't allow their kids to do odd jobs, but there has to be some way to keep them healthy. Like maybe mandatory exercise at school or at Private gyms.

We will be raising an entire nation full of abnormal physique people.

 

[Homo Sapiens]

Overweight an emerging concern with fewer children stunted in Bangladesh

HEALTH
Mohsin Bhuiyan & Muhammad Nafis Shahriar Farabi
05 May, 2021, 10:45 pm
Last modified: 05 May, 2021, 11:12 pm

Overweight an emerging concern with fewer children stunted in Bangladesh

Stunting affected growth of more than 30% or 4.3 million children under the age of five in Bangladesh last year, according to the latest estimate of child malnutrition. Although the number of stunted children has been declining from 9.1 million in 2000 accounting for 56% of the children at the...

www.tbsnews.net

Stunting affected growth of more than 30% or 4.3 million children under the age of five in Bangladesh last year, according to the latest estimate of child malnutrition.

Although the number of stunted children has been declining from 9.1 million in 2000 accounting for 56% of the children at the time, the prevalence rate is still very high.

A child suffers from stunting when he is shorter than his peers mainly due to prolonged malnutrition. He may also be burdened with a weak immune system and poor brain functioning.

Over the last two decades, overweight has emerged to be another major issue of concern as the children affected by it increased 2.5 times, as per the 2021 edition of the Unicef, WHO and the World Bank's Joint Malnutrition Estimates (JME) report released on 4 April.

In 2020, an estimated 2.1% or 0.30 million children in the country were overweight, meaning they were heavier than what is considered normal for their height, while it was just 0.7% or 0.11 million in 2000.

Globally, there were 38.9 million children who were overweight in 2020, an increase of nearly 6 million since 2000.

On the other hand, the number of stunted children declined significantly during the time from 203.6 million to 149.2 million.
The global lenders said the estimates had excluded impacts of Covid-19.

The pandemic is expected to exacerbate all forms of malnutrition due to worsening household income, especially in the vulnerable population, inaccessibility of nutritious food, disruptions in essential nutrition services, and reduced physical activity.

Bangladesh's progress in attaining SDG 2.2
Sustainable Development Goal 2 is to achieve "zero hunger" by 2030. Target 2.2 specifically focuses on ending malnutrition among children under 5. This 2.2 subsection has 3 indicators used to monitor stunting, wasting and overweight.

The 2025 target includes lowering the number of children, who are stunted, by 40% while the 2030 target is to reduce it by 50%.

The baseline year is 2012 for measuring the improvements. About 5.7 million children under 5 had the debilitating physical condition that year. That means the number decreased by 24.6% by 2020.

Bangladesh has to fast track improvement on malnourishment to reach the 2025 and 2030 goals tied to stunting.

However, it is "on track" to achieve the "overweight" sub-goal. The 2025 target is to maintain the childhood overweight prevalence at less than 3%.

Overweight children under 5 accounted for 1.5% in 2012.

More than half of all children affected by wasting live in South Asia.

In 2020, 45.4 million children were affected by wasting globally, meaning they were too thin for their height due to poor intake of nutrients, of which 25 million live in South Asia and 11 million in Sub-Saharan Africa.

The latest data showed that about 9.8% or 1.42 million children were affected by wasting in Bangladesh in 2019.

I like chubby kids. It is much better than skeletal, stunted kids. We are still a country, outside world imagine as hungry, skeletal kids begging money on the streets. At first counter those impression with Chubby kids then think about child obesity. There is obesity epidemic in the West, still they live 10 years more than us. So, first we need to increase income, adequate foods for all our children so that they get the height and weight like a kid in the West. After that, we will worry about fat kids.

 

[bluesky]

I like chubby kids. It is much better than skeletal, stunted kids. We are still a country, outside world imagine as hungry, skeletal kids begging money on the streets. At first counter those impression with Chubby kids then think about child obesity. There is obesity epidemic in the West, still they live 10 years more than us. So, first we need to increase income, adequate foods for all our children so that they get the height and weight like a kid in the West. After that, we will worry about fat kids.

No Beautiful Bangladesh Building Posters will bring tourists to BD and no Chubby Kid pictures will ever change the image of our people for the better.

Making a few children chubby does not change the fundamental that we lack proper foods and a proper environment where students can play freely every day and shed off body fats.

Playgrounds are just not available in most of the BD schools whereas in any developed country they follow the written regulations enacted by the Education Ministry before building a school that clearly specifies the area (m2) of the school playground. Students play in between morning and afternoon classes.

BD lacks written regulations to focus on these necessities. Every school governing body does in its own way. It is a kind of rule of the Thumb, the arbitrary way of doing things for which underdeveloped countries are so famous.

 

[VikingRaider]

Stop eating rice

Bhat khaoa ekebarei baad dite bolle bipod . khabe ki bengali tahole? ruti to tin bela khaoa zay na re bhai! raate bhat na khaile oneker ghum e dhore na! Taccharao beshir vag bangali bhat na khaile asol zaygateo jor pabe na , era apnar suggestion shunbe ki

 

[VikingRaider]

Yeah I guess you are right.

The families won't allow their kids to do odd jobs, but there has to be some way to keep them healthy. Like maybe mandatory exercise at school or at Private gyms.

We will be raising an entire nation full of abnormal physique people.

This is very good work bhai!

 

[bluesky]

Bhat khaoa ekebarei baad dite bolle bipod . khabe ki bengali tahole? ruti to tin bela khaoa zay na re bhai! raate bhat na khaile oneker ghum e dhore na! Taccharao beshir vag bangali bhat na khaile asol zaygateo jor pabe na , era apnar suggestion shunbe ki

Breakfast with Roti, and lunch and supper/dinner both with rice could be ideal. It is not Bhat that makes people overweight if it is not too much.

However, the nutrition value of rice is only 60% of wheat/Roti, so, all-time rice may make people stunted. Shortage of protein is also responsible for that.

The most ideal combination may be, staple: raw vegetables: protein :: 1/3: 1/3: 1/3.

 

[Jobless Jack]

No Beautiful Bangladesh Building Posters will bring tourists to BD and no Chubby Kid pictures will ever change the image of our people for the better.

Making a few children chubby does not change the fundamental that we lack proper foods and a proper environment where students can play freely every day and shed off body fats.

Playgrounds are just not available in most of the BD schools whereas in any developed country they follow the written regulations enacted by the Education Ministry before building a school that clearly specifies the area (m2) of the school playground. Students play in between morning and afternoon classes.

BD lacks written regulations to focus on these necessities. Every school governing body does in its own way. It is a kind of rule of the Thumb, the arbitrary way of doing things for which underdeveloped countries are so famous.

Singapore has even higher population density compared to BD . But she does not have this problem

The problem is lack of health education and inefficient use of Space. The most important is health education.

Space is not an issue. If dedication is there, BD schools can convert floors of certain buildings in to small playground.