Solving Malnutrition Problem in India
In this post, we will discuss the malnutrition problem in India and how to solve it with short, medium, and long-term plans.
Outline of this post
- Explain about Malnutrition
- Define Malnutrition
- Dangers of Malnutrition and how it affects our generations to come
- Preparing current generation and generations to come with solutions for Malnutrition problems
2. Current Malnutrition situation in India
- Provide statistics with historical data
- Current trend
- Projection prediction
3. Suggest proven organically scalable solutions
- Solutions based on locally available items — plants, fruits, vegetables
- Provide ways to grow locally to achieve self-sufficiency
- How to establish a home herbal garden
- Stress the need for local farming
- Suggest proper ways to consume food
- Stress the need for regular exercises including yoga, silambattam, meditation, and others
4. Cover the full life cycle — from birth
- How to take care of pregnant mothers?
- How to take care of newborn babies?
- Preparing the children to become healthy and good citizens of this world
- How to help special — needed children
5. Need for carbon-neutral solutions to provide a healthy environment
- Planting right trees
- How to cultivate a habit of planting trees
- Provide the advantages of plant-based foods in comparison with animal-based foods
- How to meet the needs of plant-based food needs in a self-sufficient way
- Proper drainage systems to solve health hazard issues created by mosquitoes and other infecting elements
6. Provide design for affordable and scalable house
- Examples of current affordable houses
- Customize the designs to meet the local needs
7. Importance nutrition subject in the school curriculum
- Provide sample curriculums for the schools to follow.
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What is Malnutrition?
Malnutrition indicates that children are either too short for their age or too thin.
Children whose height is below the average for their age are considered to be stunted. Similarly, children whose weight is below the average for their age are considered thin for their height or wasted. Together, the stunted and wasted children are considered to be underweight — indicating a lack of proper nutritional intake and inadequate care post-childbirth.
India — 10th spot in underweight children in the world
According to UNICEF, India was at the 10th spot among countries with the highest number of underweight children, and at the 17th spot for the highest number of stunted children in the world.
Among adults, 23% of women and 20% of men are considered undernourished in India.
References
- Malnutrition in India: The National Nutrition Strategy explained
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House Examples
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Silambattam
Silambam or Silambattam (Tamil: சிலம்பம் அல்லது சிலம்பாட்டம்) is a weapon-based Indian martial art from Tamil Nadu, but also traditionally practiced by the Tamil community of Sri Lanka and Malaysia. … It derives from the Tamil word silam meaning “hill” and the word perambu from which the English “bamboo” originates.
