1. Better Nutrition Helps Achieve
Millennium Development Goals
• MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALHOW IMPROVING WOMEN AND
ADOLESCENT GIRLS’ NUTRITION HELPS
Goal #1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger.
Goal #2 : Well-nourished women are better able to provide
for themselves, their children, and their families.
Goal #3 : Well-nourished mothers are more likely to have
infants with healthy birth weights, and such children are less
likely to ever suffer from malnutrition.
2. MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALHOW IMPROVING WOMEN AND
ADOLESCENT GIRLS’ NUTRITION HELPS
Goal #4:Reduce child mortality.Well-
nourished mothers are less likely to bear
low birth-weight babies, who are more
likely to die in infancy. Well-nourished
mothers are more likely to have healthy
babies who can survive childhood
illnesses.
3. MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALHOW IMPROVING WOMEN AND
ADOLESCENT GIRLS’ NUTRITION HELPS
Goal #5: Improve maternal health.
Women with adequate stores of iron and
other micronutrients are less likely to suffer
fatal infections and are more likely to survive
bleeding during and after childbirth.Well-
nourished adolescent mothers are less likely
to experience obstructed labor than their
undernourished peers.
