Feeding Profit How Food Environments are Failing Children

Child Nutrition Report 2025

A girl eating healthy food in the Nursery
UNICEF /2024/Al harthi

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Millions of children and adolescents are growing up in environments where sugary drinks, salty and sweet snacks and fast foods, including ultra-processed foods and beverages, are highly accessible and aggressively marketed. These unhealthy food environments are driving nutrient-poor, unhealthy diets and a surge in overweight and obesity among children and adolescents, even in countries still grappling with child undernutrition.

Child Nutrition Report 2025
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UNICEF