Sažetak This paper focuses on the phenomenon of the nutritional dual-burden in the
developing world. Nutritional dual-burden is defined as the coexistence of under-and-over
nutrition in the same population/group, the same household/family, or the same person. In
this paper we aim: a) to describe the different types of nutritional dual-burden, b) to identify
the anthropometric indicators generally used to classify the nutritional dual-burden, c) to
focus our attention on a dual-burden group (the Maya from Merida, Yucatan, Mexico), d) to …

This paper focuses on the phenomenon of the nutritional dual-burden in the developing
world. Nutritional dual-burden is defined as the coexistence of under-and-over nutrition in
the same population/group, the same household/family, or the same person. In this paper
we aim: a) to describe the different types of nutritional dual-burden, b) to identify the
anthropometric indicators generally used to classify the nutritional dual-burden, c) to focus
our attention on a dual-burden group (the Maya from Merida, Yucatan, Mexico), d) to …