The government along with FSSAI has launched ‘Eating Right India Movement’ to promote ‘Eat Safe, Eat Healthy and Eat Sustainably’. As RajutaDiwaker, India’s leading nutritionist and exercise science expert, write an article in not more than 150-200 words for ‘The Hindu’, highlighting the rights and wrongs of eating and the endorsing the traditional Indian cooking.
[You may use the following cues to write your article along with your own ideas.
< increase the usage of coarse grains<cut down salt/sugar< avoid refined oil/reused oil < eat freshly prepared food < intake of fruits and nuts < posture while eating < when and how to eat < utensils to be used< adequate water intake, sleep and physical activity]
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Crucial measure to trigger social and behavioural change’
“It’s time for India to eat right,” said Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Thursday, kick-starting POSHAN Maah 2019 with a year-long social and mass media campaign on the Eat Right India movement.
Leading with a tweet-a-day focusing on a weekly theme of eating right for the next 365 days, Dr. Vardhan also launched the new Eat Right India logo that represents a healthy plate, an online eat right quiz and online course for frontline health workers.
Preventive health
Stating that the country is in need of a movement on preventive health for all in the backdrop of the increasing burden of non-communicable diseases including diabetes, hypertension and heart diseases, widespread deficiencies of vitamins and minerals and rampant food-borne illnesses, Dr. Vardhan said: “The Eat Right India movement is a crucial preventive healthcare measure to trigger social and behavioural change through a judicious mix of regulatory measures, combined with soft interventions for ensuring awareness and capacity building of food businesses and citizens alike.”
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Stating that the country is in need of a movement on preventive health for all in the backdrop of the increasing burden of non-communicable diseases including diabetes, hypertension and heart diseases, widespread deficiencies of vitamins and minerals and rampant food-borne illnesses, Dr. Vardhan said: “The Eat Right India movement is a crucial preventive healthcare measure to trigger social and behavioural change through a judicious mix of regulatory measures, combined with soft interventions for ensuring awareness and capacity building of food businesses and citizens alike.”