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Bookmark or Share- Weight-for-age - World Health Organization (WHO)Access WHO's weight-for-age standards, including charts and methods for assessing child growth patterns from birth to 5 years.
- Children: new threats to health - World Health Organization (WHO)Children (aged 0 to 18 years) today face a host of new threats linked to climate change, pollution, harmful commercial marketing, unhealthy lifestyles and diets, injury and violence, conflict, migration and inequality. Their very future is uncertain, and urgent action is needed to address these threats. Some of the most important actions needed ...
- Healthy diet - World Health Organization (WHO)Limiting intake of free sugars to less than 10% of total energy intake (2, 7) is part of a healthy diet. A further reduction to less than 5% of total energy intake is suggested for additional health benefits (7). Keeping salt intake to less than 5 g per day (equivalent to sodium intake of less than 2 g per day) helps to prevent hypertension ...
- Child healthChild health. Protecting and improving the health of children is of fundamental importance. Over the past several decades, we have seen dramatic progress in improving the health and reducing the mortality rate of young children. Among other encouraging statistics, the number of children dying before the age of 5 was halved from 2000 to 2017 ...
- Healthy diet - World Health Organization (WHO)A healthy diet starts early in life - breastfeeding fosters healthy growth, and may have longer-term health benefits, like reducing the risk of becoming overweight or obese and developing noncommunicable diseases later in life. Feeding babies exclusively with breast milk from birth to 6 months of life is important for a healthy diet.
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