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Among developing nations, India has one of the highest rates of malnourished adult women. Add to it the fact that many new mothers in India are adolescents, 75% of whom are anaemic, and that most gain less weight during pregnancy than is healthy (5 kilograms on average compared to the global average of close to 10 kilograms). Food is not a choice. Eating nutritious meals is essential for survival and growth. The right to food is an essential component of the right to life. Given that 1 in 4 Indian women of reproductive age are underweight, the denial of their right to food frequently has at its root the glaring lack of gender parity. Women and girls live under incredibly harmful gender-based social norms every day, which frequently results in them "eating last, eating last, and eati...

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71% Indians Can’t Afford Healthy Meals, 1.7 Million Die Every Year Due To Poor Diet: Report

Aditi priya singhJune 7, 20220

A report released by the Center for Science and Environment and Down to Earth magazine has demonstrated the way that 71% of Indians can't manage the cost of healthy food and more than 17 lakh (1.7 million) people pass on each year because of illnesses owing to an unhealthy eating routine. Overall 42% of the total population can't manage the cost of a healthy diet, said the report named "Province of India's Environment 2022: in figures". The report said that the diet of an average Indian doesn't contain an adequate number of organic products, vegetables, fruits, legumes, nuts and entire grains. In this way poor dietary habits can bring about respiratory infirmities, diabetes, malignant growth, strokes and coronary illness, it added. An Indian aged 20 or more consumes just 35.8 gra...