{"id":8023,"date":"2020-02-12T08:17:37","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T05:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=8023"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:51","slug":"why-many-nigerian-children-still-arent-getting-proper-nutrition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/02\/12\/why-many-nigerian-children-still-arent-getting-proper-nutrition\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Many Nigerian Children Still Aren\u2019t Getting Proper Nutrition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Blessing Akombi<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Children \u2013 and countries \u2013 need proper nutrition to grow and develop. Good food does more than keep children alive and well. It also allows them to learn, play, participate and contribute to their world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But undernutrition, when children don\u2019t get enough nutrient-dense food, remains a major public health&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/nutgrowthdb\/jme-2019-key-findings.pdf?ua=1\">problem<\/a>. This is especially true in many low- and middle-income countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Childhood&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/nutrition\/healthygrowthproj_stunted_videos\/en\/\">stunting<\/a>&nbsp;is a situation where undernutrition has left a child too short for his or her age. Stunting in children younger than five can&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/nutrition\/topics\/globaltargets_stunting_policybrief.pdf\">have a long-term effect<\/a>&nbsp;on physical development, cognitive development, educational performance and economic productivity in adulthood. It affects women\u2019s ability to give birth to normal-weight children.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/why-many-nigerian-children-still-arent-getting-proper-nutrition-130891\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Blessing Akombi Children \u2013 and countries \u2013 need proper nutrition to grow and develop. Good food does more than keep children alive and well. It also allows them to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}