FAO - Nutrition country profiles: Dominica
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Overweight (weight for age) appears to be a bigger, and growing, problem than undernutrition among pre-school children in Dominica. Clinic data presented in the report on Obesity Prevention and Control Strategies in the Caribbean 1990 - 2000, showed an overall decrease in the level of undernutrition (weight for age) among children 0-5 years (attending clinic) over the period 1990-1999. The prevalence (among children attending clinic) of undernutrition decreased from 1.9% in 1990 to 0.9% in 1999, peaking at 2.3% in 1995. In contrast, the prevalence of overweight increased from 6.0% to 9.7% over the same period, peaking at 9.9% in 1995 among the same age group.