Hyderabad: India can be divided into two sections nutrition wise one suffering from malnutrition and the other that is overeating and consuming unhealthy food felt experts at an intervention programme at the National Institute of Nutrition.
The problem, they opined, cannot be sorted by giving lectures on food and health. Special initiatives to change the eating patterns and creating proper understanding of food and nutrition with the help of community level participation of nutritionists is required.
Dr Hemalatha, deputy director at the institute, said, “Despite the intervention methods, we still have 75% of women in India suffering from anemia, and 30 per cent are chronically undernourished.
This shows that understanding of foods requires to be changed by popularising lowcost nutrient dense foods.”
