People who are undernourished are chronically hungry, meaning they don’t have enough to eat for a normal, healthy and active life for a period of at least a year.
Action brief highlights data that indicates how the pandemic has put in jeopardy the progress achieved in past few years towards better health conditions for women, children, adolescents.
Nestle recently acknowledged that over 60% of its food and beverage products are unhealthy. Studies have also found a link between decreased vitamin D level and frequent consumption of instant noodles.
The Women and Child Development Ministry's response to an RTI query underscored concerns that Covid-19 could exacerbate the health and nutrition crisis among the country's poorest.
Whether we win or lose the war against Covid, we risk losing children to acute malnutrition, diarrhea, pneumonia and other illnesses, writes Rajpal Bijarnia.
When India can get bigger things such as tracking pregnant women right, why do nutritional deficiencies among under-five children remain insurmountable?
Based on trends seen in the latest National Family Health Survey, one can connect the dots between rising malnutrition, anaemia & changing policy landscape.
In episode 642 of #CutTheClutter, Shekhar Gupta analyses the data from the National Family Health Survey 5 to highlight nutrition issues faced by the country.
MoSPI proposes to remove closed factories from IIP sample, aiming for truer picture of India’s industrial health in upcoming 2022–23 base series. Plan open to public feedback until 25 November.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
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