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View all search resultsA comprehensive report on food security and nutrition highlights a need for Indonesia to implement a three-pronged policy that promotes dietary diversity, food affordability and food sustainability to tackle the "triple burden of malnutrition".
Preventing malnutrition is a complex endeavor. However, starting in childhood a shift towards a healthier lifestyle, based on a diverse diet consisting of sufficient fruits, vegetables, drinking water and non-sweetened beverages, balanced with regular physical exercise can make a significant difference.
A nationwide study on food and nutrition security outlines the impacts of undernutrition, overnutrition and micronutrient deficiencies, as well as points to expanding the government's food and social protection policies as a solution to these issues and for tackling the compounded effects of the coronavirus crisis.
Indonesia’s pediatricians have raised concerns over the government’s plan to allow more schools to reopen, given that the share of children among COVID-19 fatalities is higher in Indonesia than in other countries.