{"id":202953,"date":"2022-08-31T21:01:27","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T15:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=202953"},"modified":"2022-08-31T21:03:15","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T15:33:15","slug":"focus-on-nutrition-pms-appeal-in-mann-ki-baat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/focus-on-nutrition-pms-appeal-in-mann-ki-baat\/","title":{"rendered":"Focus on nutrition: PM’s appeal in ‘Mann Ki Baat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>: The post is based on an article\u00a0\u201cFocus on nutrition: PM’s appeal in ‘Mann Ki Baat’\u201d\u00a0published in\u00a0The Business Standard<\/strong>\u00a0on\u00a031st<\/sup> August 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus: GS 2<\/strong><\/p>\n

Context: This article discusses the issues associated with malnutrition and its mitigation strategies.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Prime Minister has recently pleaded to make\u00a0malnutrition\u00a0eradication a people\u2019s movement. He stressed on the use of technology for creating awareness<\/p>\n

What steps have been taken by the government to address malnutrition?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

India has made noticeable progress in alleviating starvation but malnutrition\u00a0is still prevalent. It is evident from the high occurrence of anemia and obesity.<\/p>\n

The government has also made some sensible moves to utilize anganwadis for this purpose by equipping them with mobile devices and extending their services to adolescent girls.<\/p>\n

What are the reasons for existing malnutrition?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

The country\u2019s vast public-distribution network has failed<\/strong> to deliver to its potential.<\/p>\n

Its focus is on supplying primarily the belly-filling cereals<\/strong> rather than the whole range of food items to take care of the nutritional needs.<\/p>\n

Another cause of malnutrition is consumption of cheaper cereals<\/strong> rather than the nutritious coarse grains like millets.<\/p>\n

What are the findings of the UN report?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

The\u00a0United Nations\u00a0(UN) report titled \u201cState of Food Security and Nutrition 2022\u201d has indicated that:<\/p>\n

Even though the number of undernourished people in India has declined, the number of anaemic children and women including overweight people is still high.<\/p>\n

The Fifth National Family Health Survey had shown that over half the children and women were anaemic. The incidence of obesity was on the rise among both men and women.<\/p>\n

What should be the further course of action?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

The prime minister stressed on increasing the consumption of millets.<\/p>\n

A recent study points out that regular consumption of millets can improve hemoglobin levels and reduce anemia-causing iron deficiency.<\/p>\n

The ultimate objective should be to make millet products part of the modern food platters to combat\u00a0malnutrition\u00a0in a cost-effective manner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on an article\u00a0\u201cFocus on nutrition: PM’s appeal in ‘Mann Ki Baat’\u201d\u00a0published in\u00a0The Business Standard\u00a0on\u00a031st August 2022. Syllabus: GS 2 Context: This article discusses the issues associated with malnutrition and its mitigation strategies. Prime Minister has recently pleaded to make\u00a0malnutrition\u00a0eradication a people\u2019s movement. He stressed on the use of technology for… Continue reading Focus on nutrition: PM’s appeal in ‘Mann Ki Baat<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[10503,212],"class_list":["post-202953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-business-standard","tag-gs-paper-2","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704861372},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202953","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\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}