Malnutrition affects brain development but fixable in the first 1000 days of a child, report from the presentation of a team Working to Improve Nutrition in Northern Nigeria (WINNN), has said.
The report also stated that, a stunted child has 40 percent less brain mass than a normal child.
Under nutrition exists when insufficient food intake and repeated infection result in one or more of the following:
•underweight for age,
•short for age (stunted),
•thin for height (wasted) and
•functionally deficient in vitamins and/or mineral micronutrients.
Malnutrition is a broad term that refers to all form of poor nutrition.
It is caused by a complex array of factors including dietary inadequacy deficiencies, excesses or imbalances in energy, protein and micronutrients), infections and socio-cultural factors.
Malnutrition includes under nutrition as well as overweight and obesity.
With the campaign by the #Nutritionreport to end malnutrition by 2030, Nigeria is ranked second behind India in the list of nations with stunted children with 45 percent children death associated to malnutrition related cases.
It is in the light of this that WINNN in partnership with UNICEF, Action Against Hunger and Save the Children International funded by DFID embarked on a six-year project (September 2011 to August 2017) supporting five states: Zamfara, Jigawa, Katsina, Kebbi and Yobe to help curb the issue of malnutrition.

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