He says current survival levels are markedly higher than those of the 1950s when nearly one in three infants died before reaching their first birthday. A keystone of these programs is a concerted effort to control communicable diseases among infants.

“Although I already knew that eating too much oily food was not good for my health, that was the moment I began to consider it carefully myself,” said Ma Htet Htet, who started to notice small signs that her body was not in shape. For instance, it began to play on her mind that she gets tired faster than friends of the same age.