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Defining malnutrition in India: how much is too little, how much is too much?
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Chakraborty, Raja Bose, Kaushik |
| Copyright Year | 2014 |
| Abstract | In spite of significant economic growth during the last few decades, India is still suffering from a huge load of malnutrition. Undernutrition in India is amongst one of the highest in the world. India also has a double burden of undernutrition and overnutrition. The cut-off points of measures to define nutritional status and body composition are based on researches mostly on people of non-Indian ancestry. These seem to be inappropriate considering the inherent difference in body composition from the Westerners and also the great Indian population diversity. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.currentscience.ac.in/Volumes/106/05/0670.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |