-TheNewsMinute.com The study also found that children from disadvantaged communities had worse nutritional indicators than others. Lifestyle-related diseases in an urban setting have become the norm. Now a large-scale nutrition study involving almost 1.72 lakh subjects from 52,577 households across 16 Indian states has revealed that Kerala has the highest prevalence of hypertension as well as high cholesterol in urban men and women. Not far behind is Puducherry that tops in the list...
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Access to sanitary latrines & child nutritional status are inter-linked, shows new urban survey
On the 148th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, cleanliness drives were officially organised across the country so as to promote Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. A few days before 2nd October, the National Institute of Nutrition (NIN), under the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), released a report that attempts to connect the dots between sanitation and nutritional status of children. Please click here to access the survey report from NIN. On...
More »A 'women-centric' approach for gains in nutrition -Malancha Chakrabarty
-The Asian Age On the one hand, there are states like Kerala and Goa which have a low burden of undernutrition. India has won significant battles against malnutrition. Unlike a few decades ago, instances of severe malnutrition such as kwashiorkor and marasmus are now rare. Latest figures from the National Family Health Survey revealed that there has been a ten percentage point decline in stunting from about 48 per cent in 2005-06...
More »Not Doing Away With Hot Meals For Children Under ICDS, Centre Clarifies -Anoo Bhuyan
-TheWire.in This comes after Maneka Gandhi recently said the government was considering moving from food transfers to cash transfers. New Delhi: The Ministry of Women and Child Development has said there is no plan of replacing hot cooked meals, which the government currently provides to children between the ages of three and six years, by either uncooked food such as ‘nutrient packets’, ready-to-cook food or cash. “There has been a lot of discussion...
More »States should spend more on nutrition -Malancha Chakrabarty
-Livemint.com Greater fiscal autonomy has not yet translated into higher spending on nutrition by states Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi once said, “There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.” Sadly, hunger and undernutrition continue to plague our country. India’s record in addressing undernutrition is abysmal. With a stunting rate of 38.4%, India accounts for about a third of the world’s stunted...
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