Dear Editor,

While being of short stature can be an annoyance in the developed world, stunting among young children in the developing world is a serious problem for those children, their families and their nations. The World Health Organization defines stunting as having a height-for-age more than two standard deviations below the median for children zero to four years old due primarily to chronic malnutrition and poor sanitation. Globally, 161 million under-five year olds were estimated to be stunted in 2013.