Bangladesh, April 12 -- That a large portion of the 35 million adolescent population of the country is suffering from malnutrition should have caused policymakers sleepless nights. Girls aged 15-19 are the worst sufferers as one in four is stunted. At the same time incidence of obesity among them is the highest. Deliberations at a roundtable arranged jointly by the World Bank, the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF), the Global Alliance for International Nutrition (GAIN) and BRAC James P Grant School of Public Health in the city recently have come up with a number of such startling disclosures. Teenage girls of the 11-14 age group are not achieving the physical growth proportionate to their age. A large portion o...