World organizations such as Unicef, Fao, and the UN report that about 48% of the world's population suffers from malnutrition, either eating too little or too much.

The Global Nutrition Report (GNR), presented today, says that this has disastrous consequences not only for health, but also for the planet.

"The global results show that our diets have not improved in the last ten years and are now a major threat to people's health and the planet," it reads.

The World Health Organization has set nine nutrition goals, and under these circumstances reaching the eighth becomes a mirage.

The eighth goal proposes to reduce child slimming and stunting, as well as adult obesity, whenever there is no match between weight, height, and age.

According to the document that aggregates data from these global organizations, nearly 150 million children under five are stunted, more than 45 million are too thin, and almost 40 million are overweight.

And, about 2.2 million people between men and women are overweight and/or obese.

Renata Micha, chair of the GNR's independent expert group, said that in a decade "preventable deaths due to unhealthy diets have increased 15%."

The document reveals that people neglect health-promoting foods such as fruits and vegetables, and in this respect the list is topped by the world's poorest countries.

However, the wealthy do not escape either. They consume the most unhealthy foods, such as red meat, dairy products, and sugary drinks, and have the highest rates of overweight people.

The Global Nutrition Report also calculated that global food demand generated about 35% of greenhouse gas emissions in 2018.

"Animal-based foods generally have a larger environmental footprint per product than plant-based foods," according to the report.

In addition to disrupting food and health systems, the covid-19 pandemic has pushed an additional 155 million people into extreme poverty, adds from the document.