As a nation, it seems we re rather bad at eating our greens. Nearly half of Brits (46%) admit to only eating one portion of green veg a day and nearly 10% don t eat any at all. And this is despite 8 in 10 of us knowing we should be eating more.
Green vegetables are packed full of essential vitamins and minerals such as folate, vitamins C and D, magnesium, iron, copper and zinc to name just a few. These micronutrients support our health in so many ways. They help us to stay energised, provide essential support for our immune system, bone and eye health plus much more.
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AKU researchers harness stem cells to study malnutrition
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KARACHI:
Researchers at Aga Khan University are harnessing the power of stem cells to generate new insight into how malnutrition occurs. The 2018 National Nutrition Survey says malnutrition is a major public health problem in the developing world, with four out of ten children under the age of five in Pakistan suffering from stunting while one in three children is underweight.
An AKU statement pertaining to the research says an unhygienic environment, contaminated water, inadequate diet and poor maternal health during pregnancy are some of the major factors leading to environmental enteropathy or EE. This is a poorly understood, intermediary condition, characterised by inflammation of the gut that leads to chronic malnutrition.