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Vietnamese women, children getting fatter but lacking vitamins, minerals

The number of overweight and obese children under five has increased more than six-fold from between 2000 and 2009, said the report, based on a national study in 2009 on mothers and their childrens nutrition. Rates have risen from 0.86 to 5.7 percent in rural areas and from 0.5 to 4.2 percent in cities.

The latest report by the Ministry of Health, UNICEF and the General Statistics Office has found higher rates of obesity among children and women.

Figures recorded in 2009 showed that, since 2000, the amount of overweight mothers has increased from 3 percent to 5.8 percent among those with children below five and from 4.6 percent to 7.9 percent for women aged between 15 and 49 years old.

Fast food, a lack of time and space for exercise, a lack of direct care from parents and parents failure to feed their children nutritious food, were blamed for the present situation.

According to the study, obesity occurred later in rural areas but the number of obese children has surged faster than that in cities.

The report explained that children in rural areas watch too much television and that their parents are ignorant to nutrition and diet, thinking that children should eat as much as possible.

Meanwhile, during the same period, malnutrition among children has dropped from 36.7 percent to 18.9 percent, and from 26.7 percent to 19.4 percent among mothers of children under five.

However, 30 percent of children are still short for their age, the study found. It also pointed out that children were not getting enough vitamins and minerals.

Le Thi Hop, head of the National Institute of Nutrition, was quoted by local news website VTCNews on June 1 as saying that children under five were only getting 49 percent of the recommended daily allowance of vitamin A.

The World Health Organization lists Vietnam among the top 19 countries with the highest rate of vitamin A deficiency - more than 10 percent in children under five. A lack of vitamin A increases risks of contagious diseases, death and slow growth in children.

Furthermore, according to the study, children gain only 76 percent of the recommended daily allowance of iron, leading to anemia among 29.2 percent of children under five.

Vietnam Business And Financial News Network. Source [thanhniennews.com]

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