This year’s International Women’s Day celebrates balance. It’s a call to action for a more gender-balanced world. We need more gender-balanced boardrooms; boards; governments; media coverage; sports. But this got me thinking.
Are we getting ahead of ourselves, when we can get some of the basics right – like our diets? As a nutritionist, I know that all too often it is women who don’t get the right balance of nutrition. Until recently, few countries had enough data to estimate the prevalence of zinc deficiency.