GLOBAL NUTRITION AND FOOD SECURITY 4such as socioeconomic, environmental factors and demographic is also used to determine thedual burden malnutrition. The rate of obesity among young individuals in a given populationdetermines the dual burden malnutrition existence in a country or within the households. Apartfrom the three basic factors such as overweight, underweight and obesity, dual burdenmalnutrition can also be determined through various non communicable diseases affecting youngpeople as well as adults within a given population or region (Piernas et.al, 2015). The keydeterminants of dual burden malnutrition are therefore, overweight, underweight, obesity andnon communicable diseases affecting various people in various areas of the continent. Etiolgy and epidemiology of dual burden malnutrition Dual burden malnutrition has been an issue affecting various nations, people, regions as well ashouseholds over a given period of time. The greater impact of the DBM has been as a result ofeconomic and income growth, movement into urban areas and change in globalization.According to the world health organization WHO, in the year 2014, almost 19 million peoplewho are all adults, old people as well as people of age 18 and above were determined asoverweight. On the side of people who are underweight all over the globe were over 462 millionindicating the massive dual burden malnutrition (Kimani et.al, 2013). These numbers released bythe WHO covers all continents including china which is the study country choice. 600 millionpeople in the world were suffering from obesity. In the same year several children were found tobe over weighing, these kids were under the age of 5years. The number of the children under theage of five who were overweighing reached 42 million. In china as a country, the prevalence among the children is at 9.1% of the general population. 29percent of the children are stunted where 18.6 percent of the children were underweight as well

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