Saturday 15 November 2014

Better Nutrition helps reduce Stunting in Children: Report

The first-ever Global Nutrition Report has revealed that in India, the number of stunted children under five years has come down by 9.1 percentage in the past eight years. Stunted growth or delayed growth is a condition when children are too short for their age. In 2013-14, 38.8 per cent under five in India faced problem of stunting, compared to 47.9 per cent in 2005-06. The report, released by the International Food Policy Research Institute, said that the ...

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