Malnutrition cannot be cured by just nutritional counselling and providing extra food. A study revealed that the root cause of malnutrition is a damaged gut resulting from vaccine failure. Thus, an infected and inflamed gut is incapable of effectively absorbing nutritional element supplied in the form of extra food to malnourished children and showing no sign of recovery from the condition.
Indian subcontinent is malnourished A recent survey found 29.4% of children (aged less than three years) to be underweight (low in weight for their age), while 15% were wasted (low weight for their height) and 38.7% were stunted (low in height for age). According to a World Bank report, the prevalence of underweight children in India is among the highest in the world and is nearly double that of Sub-Saharan Africa. Moreover, malnutrition is not a problem of India alone, but a dark side of the…
