-Governance Now Magazine turns down red flag raised by a group of experts; says private food manufacturers part of campaign but "harmful" soft drink makers are not Days after a group of independent experts criticised the "commercial exploitation" of Malnutrition and said the private sector should be kept out of any crusade against Malnutrition, the Lancet, the renowned British medical journal, has advocated just the opposite, saying private players ought to...

-IANS Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh has said that sanitation plays an important role in Malnutrition and has been often neglected from nutrition debates in the country. "You have rapid economic growth on the one hand and better health indicators, better education indicators, better indicators on water supply but you don't have them reflected in nutrition indicators," Ramesh said at the India launch of the Lancet 2013 series on maternal and child...

-Child In Need Institute (CINI) An estimated forty per cent of the world's severely malnourished children under five live in India. This is a shameful stain on a country that, with China, will be one of the great economic powerhouses of the coming century. India has made huge strides in the past decades in warding off the spectre of famine. The Green Revolution should have gone a long way to tackling child Malnutrition,...

-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Several nutrition experts and members of the Indian Academy of Paediatrics, the largest association of paediatricians in India, have warned that the new set of papers on Malnutrition published in the medical journal, Lancet, "should not be allowed to become an opportunity for commercial exploitation of Malnutrition". "The call for engaging with the "private sector" and unregulated marketing of commercial foods for preventing Malnutrition in children...

-The New Indian Express   There are no easy solutions to some of India's chronic problems, which need to be tackled in a holistic, multi-dimensional manner. However, the United Progressive Alliance government does not think so. It has hit upon the idea of enacting a food security law in the mistaken belief that it will address the problems of poverty and hunger. An article in the pre-eminent medical journal, The Lancet, should...