Cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy benefit from high-protein and high-calorie diets to combat weight loss.
Recent statistics by the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition show that at least 23 million people are undernourished.
As Kenya commemorated World Food Day on October 16, attention continues to focus on Africa’s dual crises of malnutrition and educational inequality.
In Malawi, the UN’s World Food Program (WFP) is working to address a rising number of malnourished children amid an ongoing drought, the worst to hit southern Africa in decades.
Okeyo argues that many nutritionists have not registered their details on the digital database and many have not been licensed, hence cannot easily get employed.
World leaders are being urged to increase health funding to improve child nutrition and mitigate the impact of climate change, according to a new report by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.