-IndiaSpend.com/ Scroll.in Five per cent of Indian children are Overweight and 10% pre-diabetic. Even as Indian children continue to grapple with undernutrition, the first-ever national nutrition survey of children and adolescents shows a growing risk of non-communicable diseases such as diabetes, hypertension and chronic kidney disease, with many showing early signs of these diseases. Almost one in 10 children, between 5 years to 9 years, were found to be pre-diabetic and 1% were...
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'Alarmingly high' number of children malnourished worldwide: UNICEF report
-United Nations News Across the globe, at least one-in-three children under-five are malnourished and not developing properly, UNICEF revealed on Tuesday, in its most comprehensive report on children, food and nutrition in 20 years. “An alarmingly high number of children are suffering the consequences of poor diets and a food system that is failing them,” the UN children’s agency (UNICEF) warned. Around 200 million children under-five are either undernourished or Overweight,...
More »Telling Numbers: Half of India's children suffer from malnutrition, says UNICEF -Esha Roy
-The Indian Express UNICEF report found that one in three children under the age of five years — around 200 million children worldwide — are either undernourished or Overweight. And in India, every second child is affected by some form of malnutrition. On Tuesday, UNICEF released its State of the World’s Children report for 2019. The first UNICEF report in 20 years on child nutrition, it comes on the heels of...
More »Malnutrition behind 69% deaths among children below five in India: UNICEF
-TheWire.in The UNICEF report also categorised every second Indian woman as anaemic, noting its prevalence among adolescent girls as twice as that of adolescent boys. New Delhi: Malnutrition caused 69% of deaths of children below the age of five in India, according to a UNICEF report released on Wednesday. In its report titled ‘The State of the World’s Children 2019’, UNICEF said that every second child in that age group is affected by...
More »35% under-5 children stunted, 17% wasted: Survey -Abantika Ghosh
-The Indian Express The survey, conducted between 2016 and 2018, also found that 24 per cent of adolescents were thin for their age, 4-8 per cent of adolescents were Overweight or obese, 6 per cent of adolescents were Overweight, and 2 per cent had abdominal obesity. A nutrition survey by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has found that 35 per cent of children under the age of 5 years...
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