Editing Human nutrition (section)

== Nutrition access disparities ==
Occurring throughout the world, lack of proper nutrition is both a consequence and cause of poverty.<ref name="Progress for Children" /> Impoverished individuals are less likely to have access to nutritious food and to escape from poverty than those who have healthy diets.<ref name="Progress for Children" /> Disparities in [[socioeconomic]] status, both between and within nations, provide the largest threat to child nutrition in industrialized nations, where social inequality is on the rise.<ref name=P4C43>{{cite web | title=World Health Organization, European Health Report 2005: Public health action for healthier children and populations | publisher=WHO Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen | date=2005 | url=http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/82435/E87325.pdf?ua=1 | access-date=2014-12-15 | archive-date=2016-03-04 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304035801/http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/82435/E87325.pdf?ua=1 | url-status=live}}</ref> According to UNICEF, children living in the poorest households are twice as likely to be [[underweight]] as those in the richest.<ref name="Progress for Children" /> Those in the lowest wealth [[Household income in the United States#Quintiles|quintile]] and whose mothers have the least education demonstrate the highest rates of child mortality and [[stunted growth|stunting]].<ref name="WHOstats">{{cite web | title=WHO (2013b) | publisher=World health statistics. Geneva, World Health Organization | url=https://www.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/81965/1/9789241564588_eng.pdf | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130616210234/http://www.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/81965/1/9789241564588_eng.pdf | archive-date=2013-06-16 | url-status=live}}</ref> Throughout the developing world, socioeconomic inequality in childhood malnutrition is more severe than in upper income brackets, regardless of the general rate of malnutrition.<ref name="VanP">{{cite journal | vauthors=Van de Poel E, Hosseinpoor AR, Speybroeck N, Van Ourti T, Vega J | title=Socioeconomic inequality in malnutrition in developing countries | journal=Bulletin of the World Health Organization | volume=86 | issue=4 | pages=282–91 | date=April 2008 | pmid=18438517 | pmc=2647414 | doi=10.2471/blt.07.044800}}</ref>
According to UNICEF, children in rural locations are more than twice as likely to be underweight as compared to children under five in urban areas.<ref name="Progress for Children" /> In Latin American/Caribbean nations, "Children living in rural areas in Bolivia, Honduras, Mexico and Nicaragua are more than twice as likely to be underweight as children living in urban areas. That likelihood doubles to four times in Peru." Concurrently, the greatest increase in [[childhood obesity]] has been seen in the lower middle income bracket.<ref name="WHOglobe">{{cite web | title=WHO (2011a). Global status report on noncommunicable diseases 2010 | publisher=Geneva, World Health Organization | url=https://www.who.int/nmh/publications/ncd_report2010/en/index.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110502141545/http://www.who.int/nmh/publications/ncd_report2010/en/index.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=2 May 2011}}</ref>

In the United States, the incidence of low birthweight is on the rise among all populations, but particularly among [[minorities]].<ref name=P4C45>{{cite web | vauthors=Polhamus B, etal | title=Pediatric Nutrition Surveillance 2003 Report, Table 18D | publisher=U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta | date=2004 | url=https://www.cdc.gov/pednss/pednss_tables/pdf/national_table18.pdf | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041117002747/http://www.cdc.gov/pednss/pednss_tables/pdf/national_table18.pdf | archive-date=2004-11-17 | url-status=live}}</ref>

According to UNICEF, boys and girls have almost identical rates as underweight children under age 5 across the world, except in [[South Asia]].<ref name="Progress for Children" />