Vellore cohort reveals India's growing double burden of malnutrition in school-age children

Children increasing up successful a low-income municipality assemblage successful Vellore are present facing 2 seemingly other forms of malnutrition simultaneously: persistent thinness and rising obesity by the clip they scope superior schoolhouse age. A longitudinal commencement cohort survey of 251 children recovered that portion thinness remained common, the prevalence of overweight and obesity astir tripled betwixt ages 7 and 9, underscoring the country's increasing "double load of malnutrition."