{"id":132101,"date":"2019-10-17T12:44:03","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T12:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ny1.dr1.com.do\/wordpress\/?p=132101"},"modified":"2019-10-21T11:30:55","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T11:30:55","slug":"obesity-up-malnutrition-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/10\/17\/obesity-up-malnutrition-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Obesity up, malnutrition down"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"241\" height=\"209\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Unicef-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-132137\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The representative of the United Nations Children&#8217;s Fund (UNICEF) in the Dominican Republic warns that obesity has increased to 26.9% of the population of Dominicans older than 18 years, or approximately 1.9 million Dominicans. The United Nations office in the Dominican Republic also reported exclusive breastfeeding is down to 4.6% in 2018 from 8% in 2012. Rosa Elcarte for Unicef said: &#8220;People who have not been breast fed have a higher risk of obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease.&#8221; She was speaking on occasion of World Food Day, whose motto is &#8220;A healthy diet for a zero hunger world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the positive side, undernourishment in the population fell from 24.4% in 2004 to 9.5% in 2018, according to data from the report &#8220;The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World.&#8221; There has also been a reduction in chronic child malnutrition now at 7.1% of the child population of under five years of age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/portal.onu.org.do\/onu-insta-al-consumo-equilibrado-de-alimentos-para-mejorar-niveles-de-malnutricion\/\">UN<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>17 October 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The representative of the United Nations Children&#8217;s Fund (UNICEF) in the Dominican Republic warns that obesity has increased to 26.9% of the population of Dominicans older than 18 years, or approximately 1.9 million Dominicans. The United Nations office in the Dominican Republic also reported exclusive breastfeeding is down to 4.6% in 2018 from 8% in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/10\/17\/obesity-up-malnutrition-down\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[154,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132101"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132101"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132138,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132101\/revisions\/132138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}