{"id":93258,"date":"2026-08-23T07:19:47","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T07:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=93258"},"modified":"2026-08-23T07:19:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T07:19:47","slug":"in-benin-malnutrition-and-misinformed-views-contribute-to-widespread-stunting-in-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/in-benin-malnutrition-and-misinformed-views-contribute-to-widespread-stunting-in-children\/","title":{"rendered":"In Benin, malnutrition and misinformed views contribute to widespread stunting in children"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA2aCp89.img?w=800&h=435&q=60&m=2&f=jpg\" alt=\"Benin Stunted Children:\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sabi Bera Zakari didn\u2019t appear to care much how tall his children would grow. The farmer said he only sometimes wished they could gain more weight. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/general\/in-benin-malnutrition-and-misinformed-views-contribute-to-widespread-stunting-in-children\/ar-AA2aBqz4?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&cvid=dfbc6f825b204577c2c36568fc3ea6d9&ei=12\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Sabi Bera Zakari didn\u2019t appear to care much how tall his children would grow. The farmer said he only sometimes wished they&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cost-of-living-crisis"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Malnutrition-sign-.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93259,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93258\/revisions\/93259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}