Vietnam has a nutrition problem: too many of itschildren are underweight. Yet more and more Vietnamese boys and girls arebecoming overweight.
The two conditions may appear to be separate, but they are linked. They areboth the result of poor diets.
Vietnam has a history of food insecurity. So many Vietnamese eat more thanthey should because they are fearful of food shortages. And they rememberwhen there were food shortages in the past.
People in other countries do the same thing. Like Vietnam, these nations haveexperienced food insecurity. But many of them now have a rising availability ofmeat, milk, other food products, including “fast food.”