From Struggle to Resistance: Mutura as a Revolutionary Protein for the People
“They starve you of dignity, protein, and purpose and then blame you for being too weak to resist. It’s time we changed the recipe.” In Embu, where systemic neglect and…
Nutrition
All India Health Rights Campaign (NAPM) opposes the decision of Closure of Creches and Nutritional Feeding Centres in PVTG villages of Odisha
7th Oct, 2024: Recently the Government of Odisha took the decision to shut down the Creches & nutritional feeding centers running particularly for PVTG communities (Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups), under the Odisha…
Ensure nutritional security
Nutritional security is essential for all-round development of an individual and the society. Only a physically and mentally healthy person can contribute for growth of the nation. Therefore it is…
Why are whole grains important?
The Green Revolution greatly increased the country's food production; But due to this, the farmers started to turn more towards cash crops than conventional crops. For the last few years,…
“Chhattisgarh govt not considering policy on eggs in ICDS, MDM schemes”: CG Health Minister TS Singh Deo
‘Eggs in our plate, no more debate’, read the placard being held by a 5-year-old in front of Chhattisgarh health minister TS Singh Deo’s residence on Sunday morning. He, along…
How Improvement of Human Health and Nutrition Need Better Soil Health
India has been implementing some of the biggest nutrition programs for decades and while some improvement in nutrition is indicated, on the whole malnutrition levels remain high. This needs to…
Rice Fortification May Prove to be Very Harmful for Our Food System
The government has recently announced a very fast schedule of spreading rice fortification in India. According to this schedule the supply of fortified rice to ICDS, mid-day meals, other nutrition…
Egg in mid-day meals- Resistance is against child rights
On November 23 2021, in the context of serious malnutrition, the Government of Karnataka announced that eggs would be provided three days a week as part of the mid-day meal…
Simple Processing Reforms Can Ensure Healthier Food
Everyone agrees that we should get adequate adequate vitamins in our food. But supposing someone first removes the vitamins in your natural food and then asks you to pay extra…
15 Essential Steps For Proper Nutrition To Reach All
India has suffered for a long time from significant levels of malnutrition and hunger. It is very important to give high priority to rducing this. Unfortunately, some fiercely propagated solutions…
Nutrition Labelling System : Visualised or Written?
In India, diet diversity has increased a great deal in the last 20 years. Diet is one of the cornerstones of diabetes care. There has been a rapant increase in…
We Need Multi-Disciplinary Approach For Better Understanding of Crucial Issues
The importance of a multi-disciplinary approach for understanding crucial issues is well-established both at academic and policy levels. Nevertheless we need to ask, despite the need for this being well-established,…
Compelling Need to Widen the Paradigm of Nutrition Debate
Latest data on the highly worrying nutrition situation in India is shocking and following the availability of this data the debate on nutrition has intensified again. There has been an…
Most Important Aspects of Nutrition Are Also the Most Neglected
In India we have the biggest programs on nutrition and we have also have some of the highest rates of malnutrition. Despite the expanding nutrition programs (checked for the time…
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