Only 18 per cent of urban children in grade six to 10 in India eat fruits every day, show results of a survey, revealing poor eating habits of a vast majority of kids in the country. At 14 per cent, the proportion of children eating protein once a day is even lower, showed the survey. The survey involved responses from 1,350 parents of children studying in grade six to 10 in India's metro cities. The results showed that only 35 per cent of the children consume vegetables as part of every meal.
"The World Health Organisation (WHO) does say that childhood obesity is an 'exploding nightmare' in the developing world," said, Trustee, in a statement. Anew study led by Imperial College London and WHO and published in the journal Lancet showed that the number of obese children and adolescents (aged five to 19 years) worldwide has risen tenfold in the past four decades. "Healthy childhoods are…
