Undernutrition
is the underlying cause for about 50% of the 2.1 million under-5 deaths
in India each year. Preventing undernutrition has emerged as one of the
most critical challenges to India’s development planners in recent
times. Despite substantial improvement in health and wellbeing since the
country’s independence in 1947, undernutrition remains a silent
emergency in India, where almost half of all children under the age of 3
are underweight, 30% of newborns born with low birth weight and 52% of
women and 74% of children are anaemic.
Epidemiological
surveys have shown that underprivileged individuals are more exposed
than others to the risks of nutritional deficiency, obesity,
cardiovascular diseases and cancer. This can partly be explained by the
fact that it is difficult to eat healthily on a low budget.
Undernutrition in India has many causes:-
· Lack
of awareness and knowledge being the biggest one. These people are not
aware of the ways to get the best nutrition out of their budget. They consume calories and fat rich foods which has no other nutrients thus leading to nutritional deficiencies.
· Lack of availability and facility of the right foods to the lower backward areas.
· Economic crises
Though
our metropolitan cities are full of luxurious lifestyle with big cars
running on the roads, still there is a big portion of the city occupied
by slums. The lack of knowledge of right nutrition, no sanitation and
unhygienic living conditions make them vulnerable to the thousands of
infections, epidemics and famines.
Several organisations, NGO’s and social workers are working and trying to help them get good nutrition.
N-lite
is a platform for those organisations and NGO’s which will help them
with complete nutritional consultation support. Our well qualified
dieticians and wellness consultants will assist you in your motive of
reducing undernutrition from our country. We will together try to fulfil
the nutritional needs of low income section of India so as to save them
from falling into malnourishment, nutritional deficiencies and other
nutrition related chronic diseases. We
deal with the prevention as well as management of nutrition and health
problems. Also we will give you low cost nutritious recipes.
So, let’s work together to make our country healthier.
For queries/appointments contact
Anchal Gupta
+91-9971955999
rajat.webtech@gmail.com,anchal.gupta@nlitehealth.com
www.nlitehealth.com
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