{"id":33376,"date":"2018-10-30T12:01:04","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T06:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=33376"},"modified":"2018-10-30T12:01:04","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T06:31:04","slug":"incidence-of-anaemia-high-among-tribal-people-in-coonoor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/incidence-of-anaemia-high-among-tribal-people-in-coonoor\/","title":{"rendered":"Incidence of anaemia high among tribal people in Coonoor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/incidence-of-anaemia-high-among-tribal-people-in-coonoor\/article21376171.ece\"><strong>Incidence of anaemia high among tribal people in Coonoor<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Moving away from traditional diet might be a reason<\/p>\n<p><strong>Admitted to a hospital<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It has been a week since M. Rani, a 40-year-old Kurumbar woman residing in Kil Sembakarai in Coonoor, received a blood transfusion at the Coonoor Government Hospital.<\/li>\n<li>Rani, who complained of dizziness and fatigue before being rushed to hospital, is among half of the Kurumbar residents residing in the village, who are either malnourished or are anaemic<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Vanishing variety<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 37 Kurumbar families residing in the village had earlier been growing a variety of crops, including ragi, corn and millets, which they used to consume for a relatively wholesome nutrient meal<\/p>\n<p><strong>The problem<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>However, with more people moving out from the village, giving up farming and working on the tea estates nearby in Adderley, necessitating a change in diet predominated by rice from the ration shop, local residents say that their health indices have fallen correspondingly in the subsequent year<\/p>\n<p><strong>Subsistence on rice<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Locals still rely on harvesting forest produce, including yams and vegetables, but most families subsist primarily on the rice given to them at the ration shops<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rice-based diet leading to deterioration of health<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tribal rights activists working in the belt believe that the diet of the tribal people, which has become rice-based, could be leading to a deterioration of their health in the long run<\/p>\n<p><strong>Impact<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Anaemia, thalassemia, and sickle-cell anemia, are occurring at a higher rate of incidence among tribals in the Nilgiris when compared with other communities<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Incidence of anaemia high among tribal people in Coonoor Context Moving away from traditional diet might be a reason Admitted to a hospital It has been a week since M. Rani, a 40-year-old Kurumbar woman residing in Kil Sembakarai in Coonoor, received a blood transfusion at the Coonoor Government Hospital. Rani, who complained of dizziness&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/incidence-of-anaemia-high-among-tribal-people-in-coonoor\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Incidence of anaemia high among tribal people in Coonoor<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704700512},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33376","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}