Health Promotion: Nutrition in Infants, Children and Adolescents
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Health Issues related to Nutrition

With all the recent publicity about Obesity in children, most people think that it is the only nutritional issue facing U.S. children.  But is still a percentage of this population who have nutritional deficits.


Health People 2010 Goals

  • Reduce growth retardation among low-income children under age 5
    • Baseline: 1997 - 8%
    • Target: 5%

Disparities in Grown Retardation

Disparities
 < 5 yrs overall (%)
 < 1 yr (%)
 1 yr (%)
 2-4 yrs (%)
Race: American Indian Alaskan Native
 8
 9
 7
 9
Hispanic
 7
 7
 8
 5
Asian / Pacific Islander
 9
 9
 11
 8
African American
 9
 15
 10
 5
White
 8
 10
 9
 6
Gender: Female
 8
 10
 8
 6
Male
 8
 10
 10
 6


  • Reduce iron deficiency among young children and females of childbearing age
Age Group Data

Age
 Baseline 1988-94 (%)
 Target 2010 (%)
1-2
 9
 5
3-4
 4
 1
Nonpregnant females (12-49)
 11
 7

Disparities in iron deficiency

Disparity
 Age :1-2
 2-4
 Females > 12
Race:
White
 8
 3
 10
African American
 10
 2
 15
Mexican
 17
 6
 19
Income:
< 130% federal poverty level
 12
 5
 16
> 130% federal poverty level
 7
 3
9

Isn't it an interesting twist that the largest percentage of people with iron deficiency anemia are teenager girsl?

Health People 2010 Goals

  • Reduce the proportion of children and adolescents who are overweight or obese
    • These terms are outdate now.  We would use the terms: 
      • at risk for overweight = BMI > 85th% < 95th%
      • overweight = BMI >/= 95th%
    • Baseline: 1998-94 - 11% overall
    • Target: 5%

  • 2000 Data (U.S.)
    • 12.3% non-Hispanic white
    • 21.5% African American
    • 21.8% Hispanic

NC Update - 2000 (NC child advocacy institute/NC IOM)

Age
 1995
 2000
2-4
 9
 12.2
5-11
 14.7
 20.6
12-18
 22.7
 26.0

OOOPs! We are not going in the right direction to reach the goal.
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