The National Family Health Survey<\/a>(NFHS-5) has released data on the gap in Child Nutrition.<\/span><\/p>\n Minimum Acceptable Diet: <\/b>Around 89% of children between the formative ages of 6-23 months do not receive a \u201cminimum acceptable diet\u2019\u2019. This is only marginally better than the 90.4% recorded in NFHS-4.<\/span><\/p>\n Note:<\/b> The minimum acceptable diet is a composite of two main things: 1) breastfeeding and its frequency up to two years and 2) dietary diversity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u2013 In dietary diversity,<\/b> WHO has defined ten essential food groups \u2014 cereals and millets, pulses, milk and milk products, roots and tubers, green leafy vegetables, other vegetables, fruits, fat or oil, fish, egg and other meats and sugar \u2014 out of which 4-5 every day are required for a child to prevent malnutrition.<\/span><\/p>\n States where Children received an adequate diet<\/b>: The proportion of children who received a minimum acceptable diet was highest in Meghalaya (28.5%) and the lowest in UP and Gujarat (5.9% each).<\/span><\/p>\n Access to the minimum acceptable diet <\/b>in children was higher in urban areas (12.1%) than in rural areas (10.7%).<\/span><\/p>\n Reasons for Deficient Diet<\/b>: There are a number of reasons for a deficient diet \u2014 poverty, lack of access to nutrition (cereals, fruits, vegetables, eggs, etc), lack of awareness and low education among others.<\/span><\/p>\n Impact of Deficient Diet<\/b>: Deficiency in the diet in a child\u2019s formative years has a direct bearing on malnutrition, with India having one of the highest malnutrition burdens in the world.<\/span><\/p>\n Source: <\/b>The post is based on the article <\/span>\u201c89% children between 6-23 months don\u2019t get adequate diet: NFHS\u201d <\/b>published in<\/span> Indian Express <\/b>on<\/span> 11th May 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? The National Family Health Survey(NFHS-5) has released data on the gap in Child Nutrition. What does NFHS say about Child Nutrition? Minimum Acceptable Diet: Around 89% of children between the formative ages of 6-23 months do not receive a \u201cminimum acceptable diet\u2019\u2019. This is only marginally better than the 90.4% recorded… Continue reading 89% children between 6-23 months don\u2019t get adequate diet: NFHS<\/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":[10500],"class_list":["post-183850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-index-reports-bodies","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1701974093},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183850","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=183850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What does NFHS say about Child Nutrition?<\/b><\/h5>\n