To have a healthy nation, we must address Adolescent Malnutrition and fortified foods & supplements to our growing girls and also encourage them for good physical activity.
For any country to do well as far as the health of its population is concerned, the focus has to be at the right points of breaking the intergenerational cycle of Malnutrition. According to UNICEF, almost 80% of the adolescent girls in India have malnourishment of one or the other kind. This can account for almost 63 million adolescent girls, who will be future mothers and almost 12 million become pregnant before they even leave their teens. 30% of our babies are born with low birth weight. Today we do understand that the Fetal origins of adult diseases (FOAD) hypothesis suggests that risk factors from intrauterine environmental exposure (under & over nutrition) affects the fetal development during sensitive periods & increases the risk of specific diseases (NCDs) in adult life. Read MOre…
