UN changes stats for malnutrition

Common Dreams - The United Nations on Tuesday revised its estimates of the number of chronically malnourished people in the world from 1 billion to nearly 870 million, according to a report from the UN News Centre.

The new figure is due to "a new measurement methodology," Eric Reguly of The Globe and Mail reported Tuesday. Factors include new thresholds for caloric undernourishment and "episodic" malnourishment.  Read more.

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