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Gujarat has a high burden of malnutrition, which necessitates swift action to prevent millions of children and adolescents from suffering the consequences of poor diets.

India’s child malnutrition: Troubling data from the National Family Health Survey Reproduced below is an article “India’s child malnutrition story worsens”, by Patralekha Chatterjee, published in one of the world’s oldest and best-known general medical journals, Lancet: India’s economic growth in recent decades has co-existed with alarming levels of chronic hunger and stunting. The country ranked 94th among 107 countries in the Global Hunger Index 2020, way behind many other devel...