Right to food and nutrition 2016, para. 12
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- The first 1,000 days of a child's life determines a person's physical and intellectual development. Children receiving appropriate nutrition during this window are reportedly 10 times more likely to overcome life-threatening childhood diseases and likely to complete 4.6 additional schooling levels and to raise healthier children themselves. The stages of a child's development are cumulative, and inadequate nutrition at an early stage can have lasting negative impacts, setting the child on a higher trajectory of risk of malnutrition throughout life. The Committee on the Rights of the Child, in its general comment No. 15, noted that understanding the life course was essential in order to appreciate how health problems in childhood affected public health in general.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the right to food
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Means of adoption
- N.A.
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Food & Nutrition
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2016
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Reference
- SR Food, Report to the UNGA (2016), A/71/282, para. 12.
- Paragraph number
- 12
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