The children were all suffering from a condition called stunting,” Robredo said in her speech at the 3rd Annual SEC-PSE Corporate Governance Forum. ADVERTISEMENT“Doctors later on told me that stunting after the first 1,000 days of a child’s life is irreversible,” she said. Last June, the National Nutrition Survey released data that showed that overall malnutrition or stunting rate among Filipino children aged 0-2 was at 26.2 percent, the worst in the last 10 years. The Food and Nutrition Research Institute (FNRI) said in a 2015 survey that one in every two children in the poorest quintiles was stunted. This means that the child’s height was below the World Health Organization (WHO) reference for his or her age.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer November 22, 2016 12:32 UTC