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Malnutrition condemns millions to stunted lives, UNICEF claims

Some 165 million children worldwide are stunted by malnutrition as babies and face a future of ill health, poor education, low earnings and poverty, the head of the United Nations children's fund said on Friday.Anthony Lake, executive director of UNICEF, told Reuters the problem of malnutrition is vastly under-appreciated, largely because poor nutrition is often mistaken for a lack of food.In reality, he said, malnutrition and its irreversible health consequences also affect relatively well-off countries, such as India where there is plenty of food, but access to it is unequal and nutritional content can be low."Undernutrition, and especially stunting, is one of the least recognized crises for children in the world," Lake said. "It's a horrible thing. These children are condemned."Stunting is the consequence of undernutrition in the first 1,000 or so days of a baby's life, including during gestation.Stunted children learn less in school and are more likely themselves to live in poverty...

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