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Five years after the 1999 National Nutrition Survey (NNS) in Mexico, and after several analyses addressing the major issues that have arisen sinse the NNS have been published, nutrition problems and their differential impact along the socioeconomic gradient remain at the forefront of the public health agenda. Federal programs have enjoyed a measure of improvement, following eforts to collect representative data and undertake cogent analyses to elucidate the meaning of current nutritional status at the national level. Such policies and programs have been limited by a lack of funding, and federal programs are still no closer to a comprehensive, national-level food policy. Excess weight has become a public health problem and together with hunger (and, more broadly, food insecurity), micronutrient deficiencies, anemia, and inadequate vitamin in take, constitute a public health crisis as they pose a sizeable threat to the future health of the country.

Palabras clave: Ntrition problems public health programs.

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Vol. 63 Núm.6. Noviembre-Diciembre 2006 Pags. 361-364 Bol Med Hosp Infant Mex 2006; 63(6)