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In Syria, 3.5 million are classified as rural poor. Rural women and children, suffer the most from poverty and its physical and social deprivations. A study compared differences in child growth and nutrition in three rural livelihood groups: a ‘barley-livestock’ group, an ‘olive…

In Cape Town, South Africa, in a community experiencing rapid changes in diet and physical activity, high prevalences of overweight were found among women despite an equally high prevalence of stunting among children (Bourne et al., 1994; Steyn et al., 1998a). Furthermore, in ma…