{"id":264533,"date":"2016-11-07T10:00:20","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T10:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=264533"},"modified":"2016-11-07T10:00:20","modified_gmt":"2016-11-07T10:00:20","slug":"ghana-faces-double-burden-of-malnutrition-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/11\/ghana-faces-double-burden-of-malnutrition-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana faces double burden of malnutrition – Report"},"content":{"rendered":"
Ghana is currently facing a nutrition crisis, recording a double burden of malnutrition, according to a new nutrition report.<\/p>\n
Dubbed the Foresight Report on Africa, the report, titled \u2018Food Systems and Diets: Facing the Challenges of the 21st<\/sup> Century\u2019, was launched by the Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition at the 7th<\/sup> Africa Day for Food and Nutrition Security (ADFNS).<\/p>\n [contextly_sidebar id=”kTCfCOjpfgTG0ws7up3HKdUMj2D8C6HS”]The theme for this year\u2019s celebration was: \u2018Investing in Food Systems for Improving Child Nutrition: Key to Africa\u2019s Renaissance\u2019.<\/p>\n A former Director General of the Ghana Health Service, Professor Agyeman Badu Akosa, in his presentation on \u2018Scaling up Nutrition in Ghana\u2019, said that although Ghana has performed creditably well in reducing the rate of malnutrition, it had to do more to improve the gains made.<\/p>\n According to him, many children in Ghana have short attention spans because of malnutrition. He said this could be translated to the academic performance of most Ghanaian students.<\/p>\n An Associate Professor at the Department of Nutrition and Food Science of the University of Ghana, Professor Matilda Steiner-Asiedu, in an interview with citifmonline.com<\/strong>, lamented that recent trends suggested an increasing phenomenon of wrong food choices leading to obesity.<\/p>\n