Child undernutrition in Brazil: the wound that never healed

Child feeding and nutrition: a contemporary view

“…Poor nutrition includes different clinical situations: deficit (malnutrition), excess (obesity) and situations in which there are no evident clinical manifestations (“hidden hunger”).In the article “Child undernutrition in Brazil: the wound that never healed”, 7 the authors present a scenario of concern and conclude that “faced with the scenario of spending freezes for a social security system that was not even properly constituted, in 2019 the authors observed that hunger, food insecurity, extreme poverty, and acute malnutrition (wasting) in children under 5 years of age reached the worst levels in the historical series. Moreover, child mortality has not shown a significant reduction since 2015 and basic sanitation is progressing at a slow pace, maintaining large regional disparities”.…”