Ministerio de Salud, INABIE y FAO presentan resultados de la Encuesta Nacional de Micronutrientes 2024

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00:00Well, today we released the results of the National Micronutrient Survey of 2024.

00:07We had 12 years that we did not have this data investigated.

00:13The last one was published in 2012.

00:17This survey is a particularity that includes evaluations, both nutritional and anthropometric,

00:25in children under 5 years of age, in schools from 6 to 18 years of age, and in women of 15 to 49 years of age.

00:34In this, we have first evidenced the impact that social programs and policies have had,

00:40such as the school feeding program, since we have severe malnutrition in very low numbers.

00:49This is corroborated with what was the last study carried out between the Ministry of Public Health and INAVIE in 2023,

00:58the EMPAR, where we have a prevalence of low weight at 3.1%, which was also replicated here.

01:06If the concern arises, or the concern continues, that we have overweight and obesity as an important manifestation

01:16within that double load of malnutrition that exists right now in the world,

01:21we are seeing that in our country it is not the exception.

01:24We have 29% of schoolchildren with overweight and obesity.

01:28The EMPAR had given us 31%, so the data is really consistent.

01:34We are concerned because children under 5 years of age have a global 10% of overweight and obesity,

01:43and at 5, a 20%, and it is a very early age to start presenting this problem.

01:49And it is known that if children at this young age have excess weight,

01:53they are possibly adults with excess weight and also with chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension.

02:00Women at the age of 13 have a proportion of almost 60% between overweight and obesity.