Tag: Malnutrition

Rice is cornerstone of our food security and can help combat malnutrition: Prez

The President said that though India is the leading consumer and exporter of rice today, the situation was different when the nation became free.

February 11, 2023

Malnutrition rises among Sri Lankan kids under 5: Health Minister

Amid the worst-ever economic crisis in Sri Lanka, malnutrition has increased among children under the age of five, Health Minister Keheliya Rambukwella said on Thursday, adding that that steps are being taken to address the issue.

January 5, 2023

PM urges people to take part in efforts to eradicate malnutrition

In the 92nd edition of his monthly 'Mann Ki Baat' broadcast over All India Radio, the Prime Minister said, "I am telling you about so many innovative experiments related to malnutrition, because all of us also have to join this campaign in the coming month.

August 28, 2022

The Hungry Child

According to UNICEF, 1.1 million children this year are expected to suffer from acute malnutrition, up from one million last year.

May 28, 2022

Women rallies spread awareness about malnutrition across the country

The ‘Kuposhan Se Azadi’ or 'freedom from malnutrition' rallies are a part of Iconic Week celebrations by the Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD) under the Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav Campaign.

March 12, 2022

4mn Afghan children face malnutrition in 2022: UN delegation

The delegation made the visit to Afghanistan after many Afghan citizens complained about the unfair distribution of aid provided by the UN agencies, TOLOnews reported.

February 27, 2022

Artificial nutrition

All hybrids and GM crops need high quantities of chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Given the contamination of heavy metals like cadmium, chromium, lead, arsenic and such others present in chemical fertilizers, this becomes a serious problem. Crops produced with such chemicals are not only heavily contaminated with pesticide residue and heavy metals, thereby losing the potential benefits of the artificial nutrition addition, they also damage the soil

February 17, 2022

UNICEF appeals for $7 mn to tackle acute malnutrition in Somalia

"The numbers we are seeing this year are quite high and unless urgent measures are taken, thousands of children are at risk of dying," the UNICEF Representative Angela Kearney said in a statement issued in the Somali capital, Mogadishu.

February 16, 2022

Bankura to gear up Operation Pushti as malnutrition stalks kids

“We have identified 1,627 such children, out of which 10 per cent can be suffering from severe and acute malnutrition. The reason can be the closure of ICDS (Integrated Child Development Services) Centres since March 2020 and reduced employment and cash-flow to parents.”

September 10, 2021

Addressing gaps in Under-5 child nutrition in India

Malnutrition is known to affect the cognitive development and future earning potential of children. To ensure reduction in chronic child undernutrition (stunting) and prevent adverse impact on growth and lifelong development of a child.

July 5, 2021

Stunted children

Malnutrition has an irreversible effect on health and human development. The first Golden 1000 Days of a child’s life are a unique period of opportunity when the foundations of optimum health, growth, and neurodevelopment across the lifespan is established.

May 16, 2021

Nutritional insecurity

The link between nutrition and economics has been analyzed by economists since a long time. The notion that poverty causes malnutrition dates back at least to Adam Smith and income is still the main explanatory variable in most contemporary attempts to explain poor nutrition.

March 11, 2021

Endemic deprivation

The malnutrition paradox is that there are some countries that have become economic powerhouses with persistently high numbers of malnourished children, while other countries with low levels of national income have shown an appreciable progress in combating malnutrition by investing in cost-effective, proven interventions that ensure children's access to proper nutrition.

July 17, 2020

UNICEF endorses uttapam, sprouted dal parantha as dishes for healthy diet

The UNICEF book has been based on the findings of the Comprehensive National Nutrition Survey 2016-18 which found that 35 per cent of children under five are stunted, 17 per cent are wasted and 33 per cent are underweight.

November 17, 2019

Heat, humidity, malnutrition behind Muzaffarpur children’s deaths: IMA

The IMA said that however high atmospheric temperature, humidity and malnutrition appear to play a role in the causation of this encephalopathy.

June 25, 2019

Chronic hunger

Nutrition is both a maker and a marker of development. Improved nutrition is the platform for progress in health, education, employment, empowerment of women and the reduction of poverty and inequality, and can lay the foundation for peaceful, secure and stable societies. ~ Ban Ki-moon Secretary-General of the United Nations One of the most complicated...

November 15, 2018

A painful signal

Social sector benefits, notably rice at Rs 2 a kg and 100 days of work under the Mahatma Gandhi NREGS, have scarcely been able to address the grinding privation in the Junglemahal belt that straddles West Bengal’s Purulia, Bankura, West Midnapore and the newly-created Jhargram districts. Whether or not this failure on the food front...

August 18, 2018