Nutrition and healthy diets are fundamental to health and well-being across the life course. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), unhealthy diets are a major risk factor for disease and disability worldwide and contribute significantly to the growing burden of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), including cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, stroke and cancer. WHO highlights that healthy diets protect against malnutrition in all its forms while reducing the risk of diet-related NCDs through adequate, balanced, moderate and diverse food consumption. Globally, the nutrition landscape is increasingly characterized by a \"triple burden of malnutrition,\" where undernutrition and micronutrient deficiencies coexist with overweight, obesity and diet-related diseases.
Nutrition and healthy diets are fundamental to health and well-being across the life course. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), unhealthy diets are a major risk factor for disease and disability worldwide and contribute significantly to the growing burden of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), including cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, stroke and cancer. WHO highlights that healthy diets protect against malnutrition in all its forms while reducing the risk of diet-related NCDs through adequate, balanced, moderate and diverse food consumption. Globally, the nutrition landscape is increasingly characterized by a "triple burden of malnutrition," where undernutrition and micronutrient deficiencies coexist with overweight, obesity and diet-related diseases.
Nutrition for a healthy life – WHO recommendations
What are healthy diets? Joint statement by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Health Organization
Family Health Bureau Sri Lanka - National Nutrition Month - Summary Report 2025
Statistics – Nutrition Division, Ministry of Health Sri Lanka
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