{"id":125310,"date":"2021-08-11T18:45:24","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T13:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=125310"},"modified":"2021-08-12T11:51:35","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T06:21:35","slug":"expand-food-basket-under-pds-says-who-scientist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/expand-food-basket-under-pds-says-who-scientist\/","title":{"rendered":"Expand food basket under PDS, says WHO scientist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/Home\/MShareArticle?OrgId=GQJ8S3R4I.1&amp;imageview=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>The Hindu<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The World Health Organisation(WHO) chief scientist has attended a seminar titled \u201cEnsuring food and nutrition security in the context of climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Key Highlights from the Seminar:<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>Expand Public Distribution System(PDS):<\/b><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Currently<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indias-public-distribution-system-pds-is-in-danger-of-being-derailed-in-several-states\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Public Distribution System(PDS) <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in India is taking care of food insecurity by providing only cereals.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>The Government of India<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> should expand the food basket of the PDS by<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> including Millets, pulses, fruits, vegetables and animal proteins.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>This will ensure<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that sufficient nutrition is available to people in lower socio-economic groups.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><b>Optimum Nutrition to Children:<\/b><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><b>The governments <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">should organize campaigns to bring a behavioural change of families towards providing optimum nutrition to children.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>The optimum nutrition<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<strong>to babies<\/strong> can be provided by intensive breastfeeding, kangaroo mother care and providing diverse nutritious complementary food to babies.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><b>About Kangaroo Mother Care:<\/b><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kangaroo mother care is a method of care for preterm infants. The method involves infants being carried, usually by the mother, with skin-to-skin contact.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The Hindu What is the News? The World Health Organisation(WHO) chief scientist has attended a seminar titled \u201cEnsuring food and nutrition security in the context of climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic\u201d. Key Highlights from the Seminar: Expand Public Distribution System(PDS): Currently, the Public Distribution System(PDS) in India is taking care of food insecurity&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/expand-food-basket-under-pds-says-who-scientist\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Expand food basket under PDS, says WHO scientist<\/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":[1566,7965,9],"tags":[8985,8707,356],"class_list":["post-125310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-intensive-breastfeeding","tag-issues-relating-to-hunger","tag-malnutrition","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704826031},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125310","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=125310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}