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&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;A position paper drafted by a group of experts under the National Education Policy 2020, and recently placed in the public domain, appears to advance a misguided idea of nutrition that could misinform students from a young age as well as endanger the composition of the midday meals that keep lakhs of children coming to school.&lt;/p&gt;

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<p style="text-align:justify"><em>* A position paper drafted by a group of experts under the National Education Policy 2020 advances a misguided idea of nutrition couched in the language of nationalism.</em></p>

<p style="text-align:justify"><em>* The paper recommends that meat and eggs be removed from midday meals and from children&rsquo;s lessons, but on unscientific grounds and through statements devoid of evidence.</em></p>

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<p style="text-align:justify">Since the Ministry of Education will use these position papers to draft curricula, and because the position paper makes dubious references to Ayurvedic precepts, the position paper could also seed school syllabi with bad science.</p>

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<p style="text-align:justify">The gene-diet interactions indicate what is best for Indian ethnicity, and the natural choice of the race needs to be considered.&rdquo;</p>

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NEP Position Paper to Schools: Meat and Eggs Are Bad for Health and Nation -Megha

-TheWire.in * A position paper drafted by a group of experts under the National Education Policy 2020 advances a misguided idea of nutrition couched in the language of nationalism. * The paper recommends that meat and eggs be removed from midday meals and from children’s lessons, but on unscientific grounds and through statements devoid of evidence. * The paper also uses conflates wildly different – and potentially dangerous – terms like “gene-diet interactions”, “Indian ethnicity”, “natural choice” and “race”. * Similarly, it seeks to define nutrition and diets in terms of unrelated terms like “holistic”, “natural choice of food”, “Pankti Bedha” and “authentic dharma”. * The document was drafted by eight experts, none of whom is a school-teacher or a parent. As such, the principal stakeholders are completely missing from the picture. A position paper drafted by a group of experts under the National Education Policy 2020, and recently placed in the public domain, appears to advance a misguided idea of nutrition that could misinform students from a young age as well as endanger the composition of the midday meals that keep lakhs of children coming to school. Since the Ministry of Education will use these position papers to draft curricula, and because the position paper makes dubious references to Ayurvedic precepts, the position paper could also seed school syllabi with bad science. In one particular problematic portion, the ‘Position Paper on Health and Wellbeing’ has alleged: “… while planning mid-day meals, cholesterol-free, additives-free, such as eggs, flavoured milk, biscuits , should be forbidden to prevent obesity and hormonal imbalance caused by excess calory and fat. (sic) Given the small body frame of Indians, any extra energy provided through cholesterol by regular consumption of egg and meat leads to lifestyle disorders. Lifestyle disorders like diabetes, early menarche, primary infertility in India are escalating, and studies conducted across the countries suggest that animal-based foods interfere with hormonal functions in humans. The gene-diet interactions indicate what is best for Indian ethnicity, and the natural choice of the race needs to be considered.” Please click here to read more.