Stutrition And Nutrition In India

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INTRODUCTION
India’s concern for nutrition is as old as its civilisation. We can find references to both health and nutrition in ancient Scriptures and how good nutrition is highly imperative for maintaining one’s health properly. It can also be understood to the annals of Indian history that because of different climatic conditions, all the parts of India were not really endowed with equally good food production and food supply. As a result, due to the occurring of famines and droughts in certain parts of India, major sections of the people were denied food nutrition food. However, after India attained independence, the country left no stone unturned to raise the quality of the life of the people. We can notice the commitments made in the Indian Constitution for rising the nutrition and standard of life because at the time the nutritional standards of the people were abysmally poor. The main issues that concerned the food and nutritional standards of the people which were preponderant at the time, among others (1) inadequacy with regard to food production, (2) series of recurring droughts and famines, (3) florid nutritional deficiency disorders like pellagra, beriberi and scurvy (4) acute under-nutrition and mal-nutrition among the infants and children, (5) unacceptably high infant and children mortality rates accompanied by very poor sense of nutritional awareness. The Government of India, with the intention to raise the nutritional standards of the people launched

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