The problems during conducting a comprehensive analysis of food security and
nutrition indicators SDG 2, are not only the lack of a complete system of required
indicators. Despite the obvious relationship, the spread assessment of malnutrition and
food insecurity scales reflect different concepts, so these two measures can not be
regarded as interchangeable or as having a clear correlation between countries. They
give different, but complementary information.
In studying the links between food security and nutrition is also important to
remember that improving access to food by itself does not guarantee the improvement
of child nutrition, as well as infections caused by lack of access to clean water, basic
sanitation and health care, can lead to violations of the digestive system, which
eventually leads to the increasing in the spread of exhaustion and stunting. In addition,
defective food diets can lead to the growth of obesity and diet-related, non-
communicable diseases that are increasingly distributed among the poor. It was found
that obesity is associated with lack of food security in a number of adults groups and
is associated with poverty. The coexistence of malnutrition and excessive eating
significantly affected the countries that conduct rapid transformation, and lay them on
the double burden of malnutrition [4]. These countries, in particular, also include
Ukraine.
If the child is faced with food insecurity, most likely, it will lag in the height and
suffer from disorders of the digestive system, which often precede irreversible
consequences lag in height [5, 6]. Regarding the relationship between personal
experience of food insecurity and overweight among the children, the evidence
compelling enough, although a range of other harmful consequences of food insecurity
for children, including less healthy diets and negative psychosocial consequences, have
been studied well [7].
With the adoption by the states of 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and
increase of efforts to monitor expected data on food security and nutrition at national
and regional levels, will be easier to accepted and widely accessible. This will facilitate
the process of filling out of of plural gaps in knowledge about the relationship between
access to food and nutrition levels, and other factors of food insecurity.
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