growth food insecurity has left its traces. According to the Panorama of Child and Adolescent Obesity, published by the Desiderata Institute, malnutrition among children and teens has increased significantly, primarily affecting black and brown men.
Panorama surveys examine, among other data, the rates of malnutrition among children and young people aged 0 to 19 between 2015 and 2021. Indices recovered for a moment in 2018, but fell again later that year.
Of children and youth serviced by the Unified Health System (SUS), these proportions worsened, reaching 5.3% of white males and 7.4% of black and brown males in this population in 2021.
In 2018, the best period on record, rates were 4.8% higher for the white population and two percentage points higher for black and brown men.
Raphael Barreto, a doctoral student in public health at Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, told Agência Brasil that this difference in indices can be attributed to social and income inequality in Brazil, making it difficult for this population to access quality food.
Unfortunately, these indices tend not to show an immediate improvement in the current scenario in the country. Due to the pandemic and increasing food insecurity, the consumption of highly processed foods has become part of the Brazilian diet.
Although obesity rates increased, malnutrition did not decrease. With the consumption of calorie-rich but nutrient-poor foods, malnutrition rates tend to continue to gradually decline, although not increase.
Source: Tec Mundo

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