Sri Lanka, June 15 -- Colombo University Medical Faculty Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Senior Prof. Pulani Lanerolle said that under-nutrition among children under five years has shown little improvement for over two decades in Sri Lanka,

She said that child under-nutrition increases the risk of Non Communicable Diseases (NCDs) in later life when exposed to poor quality, refined, processed foods. Referring to data from 2000-2022, she said that the prevalence of wasting (low weight for height) among children under five had increased from 15.5 percent in 2000 to 19.8 percent in 2022, while the prevalence of being underweight (low weight for age), which had been on a downward trend from 22.8 percent in 2000 to 17.5 percent in 2021, had...