Highlights
- •1.4 million Brazilian children and adolescents assisted in primary care are obese.
- •Child malnutrition was present in most population groups in Brazil.
- •Brazil is experiencing at least two epidemics (obesity and malnutrition), within a pandemic (COVID-19).
Abstract
Malnutrition increases the chance of cognitive delay, recurrent infections, micro
and macronutrient deficiencies, stigmatization. According to the Brazilian Society
of Pediatrics (Sociedade Brasileira de Pediatria), more than half (58%) of Brazilian
families with children and adolescents reported changes in eating habits in the same
period. For 31%, there was an increase in consumption of processed foods such as chocolate,
filled cookies, instant noodles, and canned foods. Therefore, despite food security
being a human right contemplated in article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights and reiterated by article 6 of the Brazilian Federal Constitution in 2010,
the country still has a long way to go. With the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic,
there was a deepening of poverty, misery, and hunger in the country, which directly
reflected on the income of families and placed children/adolescents in a situation
of extreme vulnerability.
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: January 13, 2022
Accepted:
November 30,
2021
Received:
November 30,
2021
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