{"id":119651,"date":"2021-07-19T18:33:34","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T13:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=119651"},"modified":"2021-07-19T18:33:34","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T13:03:34","slug":"midday-meals-leave-a-long-lasting-impact-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/midday-meals-leave-a-long-lasting-impact-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Midday meals leave a long-lasting impact: study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/Home\/MShareArticle?OrgId=G6M8PHE23.1&amp;imageview=0\"><strong>The Hindu<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h5><strong>What is the News?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>A Study titled \u201cIntergenerational nutrition benefits of India\u2019s national school feeding program&#8217;\u201d has been published in Nature Communications.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The study used<\/strong> nationally representative data on mothers and their children from 1993 to 2016 to assess<strong> whether the mid-day meal scheme has supported intergenerational improvements<\/strong> in a child\u2019s linear growth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/mid-day-meal-scheme-govt-decides-to-provide-monetary-assistance-through-dbt\/\">About Mid Day Meal Scheme<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h5><strong>Key Findings of the Study:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The study has found that <\/strong>the midday meal scheme was associated with 13-32% of the improvement in the height-for-age scores in India between 2006 and 2016.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Girls who had access <\/strong>to free lunches provided at government schools had children with a higher height-to-age ratio than those who did not.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Moreover<\/strong>, the linkages between midday meals and lower stunting in the next generation were stronger in the lower socio-economic strata<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Importance of Mid Day Meal Scheme:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>In India, more than one in three children <\/strong>are stunted or too short for their age, which reflects chronic undernutrition.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The fight against <\/strong>stunting has often focussed on boosting nutrition for young children.<\/li>\n<li><strong>However, <\/strong>nutritionists have long argued that maternal health and well-being is the key to reducing stunting in their offspring.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hence, <\/strong>the study has noted that interventions to improve maternal height and education must be implemented years before those girls and young women become mothers.\n<ul>\n<li>The interventions in fields such as women\u2019s education, fertility and the use of health services will reduce malnutrition.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The Hindu What is the News? A Study titled \u201cIntergenerational nutrition benefits of India\u2019s national school feeding program&#8217;\u201d has been published in Nature Communications. The study used nationally representative data on mothers and their children from 1993 to 2016 to assess whether the mid-day meal scheme has supported intergenerational improvements in a child\u2019s linear&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/midday-meals-leave-a-long-lasting-impact-study\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Midday meals leave a long-lasting impact: study<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1305,7965,9],"tags":[8482],"class_list":["post-119651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-index-reports-bodies","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-midday-meals-leave-a-long-lasting-impact","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1703334879},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}