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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | India's children are eating well enough to grow taller, but not to put on necessary weight -Menaka Rao

India's children are eating well enough to grow taller, but not to put on necessary weight -Menaka Rao

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published Published on Mar 8, 2017   modified Modified on Mar 8, 2017
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The quality and quantity of food that many of India’s children get is not good enough.

The recently released National Health Family Survey throws up an interesting conundrum on childhood nutrition. More children below the age of five have reached an acceptable height for their age as per World Health Organisation standards. But children’s weights have not shown a similar improvement for the past decade.

National Family Health Survey data is based on survey conducted between 2015 and 2016. The large-scale survey, the last of which was in 2005-’06, is conducted on a representative sample of households.

Forty eight per cent of children in the 2005-’06 survey were found stunted, which means that their height was lower than what it should be at the age they are at. The latest data shows that stunting has reduced to 38.4% of children surveyed, though even this is unacceptably high. Stunted growth reflects poor intake of food, often starvation, over a long period of time.

Wasting among children has increased since the last survey 10 years ago. Wasting is low weight for height and is associated with acute starvation.

In 2005-’06, almost 20% of children surveyed were wasted, while more than 6% were severely wasted. In 2015-16, the proportion of wasted children has increased to 21% and the severely wasted to 7.5%. Wasting is a strong predictor of mortality below five years, according to the WHO.

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Scroll.in, 7 March, 2017, https://scroll.in/pulse/830821/indias-children-are-eating-well-enough-to-grow-taller-but-not-to-put-on-necessary-weight


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