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Share of normally physically developed children in
Russia grows
MOSCOW. March 25 (Interfax) - About 70% of Russian children had a normal height/weight ratio last year, reads a report by the Russian Health Ministry summing up outcomes of 2001.
Medical specialists point out in this connection that the increase in the number of children suffering from insufficient weight and height, which was recorded by researchers in the past several years, has stopped, and the physical development of children has actually approached the level of 1991.
The decline in the number of Russian children with normal physical development, which took place before 1997, was chiefly attributed to the fact that they "rarely or never ate the right food for their development."
At the present time, however, "there has been a positive dynamic in the average parameters of physical development of children in the country," and "the declining number of children suffering from insufficient weight points to a general improvement in the health of children in Russia," reads the report.
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