friday thought (for food) II

Doing some casual data analysis and discussion on a friday afternoon for some recently collected data on 3 districts in Mid Western Nepal (aka as a WFP highly food insecure region). Of the sampled 750 children, in (one) Jumla district almost 500 of them were stunted (i.e short i.e low height for age) and over half of them (400) were underweight (thin, really thin aka low weight for age) and about a third of that group were severely underweight.

so imagine, for those of your playing at home, in a kindergarden /preschool class of say 100, half of those kids are stunted, half are underweight and if you're lucky only about 4 of them will be severely malnourished. and another say 10 will be moderately malnourished. those are pretty alarming figures.

  lets just hope they aren't this dirty.

 overall something like 54% of all Nepali children are malnourished due to food insecurity, poor feeding habits and a whole host of other reasons that i'm not got to go into on a Friday afternoon.

Just another timely reminder that we are all pretty lucky to be getting 3 meals a day.

happy friday charolastras

xL

PS. my good friend molly (check her blog) has been up in the very region i mention talking to the people about food and livelihoods (i'm speaking in generalisations here)