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Stunting, obesity in Ph alarming’
By J.Lo
“And at the same time, we are really not achieving a lot in terms of stunting and undernutrition ,we were able to reduce burden of undernutrition by half, but burden of overnutrition quadrupled in 35 years,” Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands and Universiteit Gent in Ghent, Belgium Professor Gerald Bryan Gonzales, an expatriate Filipino academician said apart from having thousands if not millions of stunted or wasted young Filipinos as well as those suffering from “hidden hunger” or micronutrient deficiency, there’s emerging problem of obesity, cause for alarm.
Gonzales said obesity rate of 3.9 percent of Filipino children aged 0 to five years old in 2021 Expanded National Nutrition Survey (ENNS) conducted by Department of Science and Technology-Food and Nutrition Research Institute, should not be ignored.
The 2021 ENNS had also found that one in every four or 26.7 percent of children under five years old was stunted. It also revealed prevalence of thinness or wasting prevalence among children under-five was 5.5 percent.
With regard to the of obesity, 2021 ENNS said that for children 0 to 5 years old, it was 3.0 percent, and 14 percent for school-aged children 5 to 10 years old.
Gonzales said while World Health Organization (WHO) has already warned of double burden of malnutrition, triad of malnutrition problems existing in the country betrayed triple burden of malnutrition in the Philippines.
“Again, these diseases are concentrated in countries where they could not necessarily afford to solve those problems,” he said.
Gonzales noted WHO, in its 2025 Action for Nutrition Program, had called on countries to undertake more efficient nutrition interventions especially in view of emerging double burden of malnutrition where people, especially children, are facing double challenge of undernutrition causes stunting, and overnutrition caused significant population of young people suffering obesity.
“We need to be more efficient in terms of our nutritional interventions… WHO called for what they called as ‘double duty actions for nutrition, these are actions that solve all forms of malnutrition with one intervention,’” Gonzales said.
Double duty actions, WHO said, include interventions, programs and policies that have potential to simultaneously reduce risk or burden of both undernutrition and obesity or diet related NCDs (noncommunicable diseases).
“That is the big challenge WHO gave us,” Gonzales said.
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