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 * Poor nutrition is affecting kids and stunting their growth**

UNICEF has reported that hungar has affected millions of children and about 90% of those kids live in Africa and Asia. Also UNICEF has also released a report that showed195 million children, or 1 in 3 children have stunted growth due to poor nutrition but the rates have fallen since 1990. The number of underweight children still is high and an estimated 129 million are underweight. The rates of stunted growth are still high because though some children could have normal weight or overweight, the quality of the food is so poor that they ate it still affects their growth. Some experts said that this condition is often irreversible and often results the condition following the children for the rest of their lives. Werner Schultink, UNICEF's associate director of nutrition said this "Undernourished children will perform less in school, they will be able to do less well as an adult and, even worse, their health situation in adult life may be negatively affected. They are more likely to suffer from chronic diseases, such as heart disease or diabetes." Mothers are being urged to breast feed their babies for at least six months to provide the nutrients and keybodies the babies need for survival. UNICEF said there are some nutrient supplemental programs that are trying to give vitamin A and iodilized salt to vulnerable children which are to help aid brain development, bone growth, and the body's ability to fight infections. If people follow these steps it could reduce deaths by a fifth. UNICEF has been monitoring the progress of countries trying to reduce the number of undernourished children and so far it seems that Africa is progressing the slowest compared to other countries.

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Some differences are the quotes that each article had. Each article had some quotes from the same people but they didn't say the same thing. Like Ann Veneman said this for CNN, "Global commitments on food security, nutrition and sustainable agriculture are part of a wider agenda that will help address the critical issues raised in this report." But she said this for BBC, "Undernutrition steals a child's strength and makes illnesses that the body might otherwise fight off far more dangerous." They also had Werner Schultink who said this for CNN, "The report we have launched draws attention to the fact that 200 million children under the age of 5 in the developing world suffer from chronic undernutrition." And for BBC, "This has a big impact on the child mortality figures." They had some pieces of info that was different like the general info about this event. Like CNN had info about 90% of those millions of kids are from Africa and Asia while BBC didn't have anything on that. Also BBC talked about the number of underweight children while CNN didn't. Another noticable difference was that CNN had a picture while BBC had a video, picture, and a map to show each country's progress in getting rid of the problem. There weren't many similarites except the part about each article talked about the vitamin A and iodilized salt, also they both talked about how mothers should breast feed more to give their babies to live better.

My opinion on this article is that its horrible how all these kids are suffering from poor nutrition and I think it should be stopped as fast as possible. Well I assume there are lots of places that are trying to provide food to kids who need food all over the countries. It's amazing what poor nutrition could do to a kid and their future life. It's good how some countries are improving but it would be better if their improvement would be much faster so that more kids could get better and healthier. This issue probably will take a while to resolve but I'm glad that there are some people who are trying to take care of it. That's why this is my opinion about this event.