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A Million Mexican Children
Malnourished
More than one million Mexican
children under five (12.7
percent) suffer from chronic
malnutrition, a survey carried
out by the National Institute of
Public Health revealed.
In the rural areas of the
country the figure increases to
20 percent of children, and in
the South the rate is 25.6
percent.
Twenty-three out of every 100
children in that preschool age
group suffer from anemia, and
the study points out that iron
deficiency affects intellectual
capacity and future social
performance negatively.
The study also reveals that 26
percent of under fives suffer
from obesity by the time they
are 11, representing an increase
of 40 percent since 1999, when
it was 18.6 percent.
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