Question

write a paragraph on underweight children under 5 year of age in 100 words​

Answer 1

Explanation:

Despite India's 50% increase in GDP since 2013,more than one third of the world's malnourished children live in India. Among these, half of the children under three years old are underweight.

One of the major causes for malnutrition in India is economic inequality. Due to the low social status of population, their diet often lacks in both quality and quantity. Women who suffer malnutrition are less likely to have healthy babies. Deficiencies in nutrition inflict long-term damage to both individuals and society. Compared with their better-fed peers, nutrition-deficient individuals are more likely to have infectious diseases such as pneumonia and tuberculosis, which lead to a higher mortality rate. In addition, nutrition-deficient individuals are less productive at work. Low productivity not only gives them low pay that traps them in a vicious circle of under-nutrition, but also brings inefficiency to the society, especially in India where labour is a major input factor for economic production.On the other hand, over-nutrition also has severe consequences. In India national obesity rates in 2010 were 14% for women and 18% for men with some urban areas having rates as high as 40%. Obesity causes several non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, cancers and chronic respiratory diseases.

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Answer 2

Explanation:

despite the annual embarrassment of India scoring a poor rank on the global hunger index, nutrition and hunger hardly merit a mention in the budget speeches of our finance ministers. the last time there was anything related to tackling malnutrition among women and children was in 2014-15 - the first budget of the Narendra Modi government - where Arun Jaitley announced in National nutrition mission would be launched. 47 million children under 5 years of age are wasted, 14.3 million are severely wasted and 144 million are stunted, while 38.3 million are overweight or obese. around 45% of the deaths among children under 5 years of age are linked to undernutrition. these mostly occur in low and middle-income countries.

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