How nutrition affects your productivity

NAIROBI: Kenya, like other African countries, is grappling with two heavy burdens of malnutrition: The traditional under-nutrition and over-nutrition often seen in instances of being overweight and obese.

At the national level, 26 per cent of children under five years are stunted and too short for their height, meaning they will never attain their full physical and mental potential; 11 per cent are underweight, and 4 per cent are too thin for their height. While the levels of wasting and stunting has remained nearly constant in the last 20 years: there was a slight decline in underweight from 22 per cent in 1993 to 16 per cent in 2008.