“Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food”— Hippocrates Every year, 1 st -7 th September is observed as National Nutrition Week in India to create awareness about the importance of nutrition in leading a healthy life. Read this article to know about various strategies that can be implemented to improve nutrition status in India. Did you know? According to the Global Nutrition Report, 2018, 46.6 million children in India are stunted.
Nearly half of under-5 child mortality in India is due to undernutrition. In the Global Hunger Index 2020, India ranked 94 out of 107 countries and is in the “serious” hunger category. Malnutrition is a major cause of concern in India. The common reasons for the prevalence of malnutrition in India include hunger, poverty, unhealthy feeding and caring practices, lack of proper sanitation and hygiene, and inadequate investment in…
