Five in six infants undernourished, risk irreversible mental and physical damage: U.N.

By Alex Whiting ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Five in six children under two years old in developing countries are not getting enough of the right kinds of food, putting them at risk of irreversible mental and physical damage, the U.N. children's agency UNICEF said on Friday. Half of children aged between six and 23 months are not being fed frequently enough, UNICEF said. "How can it be that in 2016 we still have so many children who are not getting enough nutrition (for) healthy growth?" France Begin, senior nutrition adviser at UNICEF in New York, said in a telephone interview.