date:Aug 24, 2012
The UN Standing Committee on Nutrition (UNSCN) says fast-growing, low income urban populations are facing a nutritionaldouble burden.
While they continue to face undernutrition, cities are now experiencing a double burden of malnutrition with the additional presence of over nutrition and obesity, which is associated with non-communicable diseases like heart disease, diabetes and cancer,the report says.
It will be presented at the UN Habitat 6th World Urban Forum in Naples, Italy, on Septembe