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Maputo \u2014 Lack of diversified diet affects 80 percent of Mozambican minors, contributing to micronutrient deficiencies as well as increasing the risk of malnutrition, according to the health minister Ussene Isse.<\/p>\n
Speaking at the 1st National Conference on Food and Nutrition Security, held on Monday, in Maputo, the minister revealed that chronic malnutrition currently affects 37 percent of the country’s minors, while micronutrient deficiency affects 74 percent of children under five and 52 percent…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Maputo \u2014 Lack of diversified diet affects 80 percent of Mozambican minors, contributing to micronutrient deficiencies as well as increasing the risk of malnutrition, according to the health minister Ussene Isse. Speaking at the 1st National Conference on Food and Nutrition Security, held on Monday, in Maputo, the minister revealed that chronic malnutrition currently affects […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":244501,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[12714,258,256,27683,29612,7112,15516,7751,4704,682,257,6720,254],"class_list":["post-244500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-affects","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-diet","tag-diversified","tag-lack","tag-minors","tag-mozambican","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-percent","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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