-Frontline.in Optimal feeding of infants is fundamental to tackling the burden of malNutrition. The release of the Comprehensive National Nutrition Survey (CNNS 2016-2018) has renewed interest in tackling malNutrition in India. The conceptual framework for child underNutrition, developed by UNICEF, recognises breastfeeding, good complementary feeding, caring and health care to minimise disease burden as immediate underlying factors that determine malNutrition in all its forms. According to the CNNS, 35 per cent of the...
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Disquiet on the hunger front -Aunindyo Chakravarty
-Newsclick.in Children go hungry in India while granaries overflow and corporates get mega tax-breaks. As a child, I never liked eating liver. I would gaze at my plate for ages, as I sat ruminating at the table, well after everyone else had finished their meals. “You are wasting your food,” my mother would scold me, “while children in Ethiopia are dying of hunger.” I am not alone. Almost all of us would...
More »Millets, answer to tackle malNutrition, climate change
-The New Indian Express Odisha Millet Mission is a unique initiative for revival and promotion of millet production. BHUBANESWAR: With focus shifting to Nutrition in food and nutrient-rich millets becoming a favourite food to fight malNutrition, agricultural experts and officials lauded the Millet Mission undertaken by the State Government to promote production, consumption and marketing of the grains. Inaugurating a national workshop on nutri-cereals here on Wednesday, Chief Secretary Asit Tripathy said Odisha...
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 »Peanut paste not a solution for severe malNutrition: study -Jagriti Chandra
-The Hindu Clean drinking water and sanitation are also important’ Deaths due to severe acute malNutrition (SAM) in India could be at least a tenth of what was earlier believed, which implies that instead of taking emergency measures such as providing Ready To Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF), there needs to be a focus on non-food interventions such as sanitation, health, clean drinking water along with an emphasis on Nutrition, suggests a new...
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