The world has fallen far short in efforts to reduce hunger by half before 2015, the UN Children's Fund said today. (AP, 2:54 p.m.)
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The most troublesome area in the world is South Asia, where 46 percent of children are underweight. India, Bangladesh and Pakistan account for half of the world's underweight children even though they have only 30 percent of the world's population of children under 5.
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In developing nations, only one in three children is breast-fed in the first six months of life, meaning they are deprived of crucial nutrients that stimulate their immune systems and protect them from respiratory infections, the report said.
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