Seminar 24th March : Food for thought – Role of diet in critical periods of human growth and development
Author: Nutrition Group
Vajan Tyohaar survey: a milestone in anthropometric data collection
Annual anthropometric data collection helps in planning, implementation & monitoring of nutrition action plan at regional levels.
Supporting healthy growth in infants in low-resource settings in Mumbai, India
Supportinghealthy growthin infants inlow-resourcesettings inMumbai, India By Rupal Dalal, Shruthi Iyer, Marian Abraham and Lahari Yaddanapudi Location: Mumbai, India What we know: Maternal undernutrition, low birth weight and growth failure in early infancy contribute to wasting, stunting and underweight. What this article adds: The Foundation for Mother and Child Health (FMCH) is a Read More …
A qualitative assessment of barriers and facilitators to implementing recommended infant nutrition practices in Mumbai, India
Authors: Priyanka Athavale, Kristin Hoeft, Rupal M. Dalal, Ameya P. Bondre, Piyasree Mukherjee & Karen Sokal-Gutierrez Abstract Background Childhood malnutrition has been a longstanding crisis in Mumbai, India. Despite national IYCF (Infant Young Child Feeding) guidelines to promote best practices for infant/toddler feeding, nearly one-third of children under age five are stunted or underweight. To improve Read More …
Framework for enhancing maternal nutrition: addressing under nutrition in tribal children inhabiting Central India
Authors: Suveena Doddalingannavar, Ayushi Jain and Satish B. Agnihotri Abstarct: Our world is transitioning into a new generation of governance with much greater emphasis on targeted actions and mission mode programmes to achieve global sustainable goals (SDG). India with its Twenty-point programme which directly maps national and state programmes to global Read More …
Minimum Diet Diversity and Minimum Meal Frequency – Do They Matter Equally? Understanding IYCF Practices in India
Authors: Ayushi Jain, Muneer Kalliyil, Satish Agnihotri Abstract Objectives Infant and Young Child Feeding practices, mainly, complementary feeding in children between 6 months and two years of age, is found to be sub-optimal and emerge as the weakest link in improving child nutrition outcomes in India. Minimum Acceptable Diet (MAD), comprising of Read More …
Health promoting functional lipids from microalgae pool: A review
Authors: Richa Katiyar, Amit Arora Abstract Current market trend and consumer’s growing demand for healthy natural products have strengthened microalgae as an emerging source of nutrient rich natural food supplement. The constituents of food play a critical role in evolution of non-communicable disease and malnutrition. In this regard, microalgae based food products own positive Read More …
Food supplement for moderate acute malnourished children (6-59 months)
Authors: Anchal Purbey, Amit Arora, Satish B. Agnihotri Presented at: 2nd International NIN Centenary Conference, 11th-13th November, 2018 Aim and Objectives: To develop a nutritious and safe supplementary product, yet affordable that caters to the requirement of moderate acute malnourished children. • Developing nutritious food formulations to treat MAM children Read More …
Malnutrition free India: Worm’s eye view
Purbey, A., Tomar, M. S., & Agnihotri, S. B. (2018)
High levels of maternal and child undernutrition in India have persisted, despite constitutional provisions, legislative policies and plans. This study, based on personal observations and information collected from three different tribal settings in India, examines the ground realities highlighting the need to focus on district action plans. It further suggest the need to go down to block and village level to address issues that don’t get highlighted from a national or state level perspective. What has been envisaged in the nutrition policy and programme at the macro level can be different from the actual practices in the field. The study brings out that reality.