Anemia: Consequence Of Intergenerational Malnutrition As a community we need to ideate, innovate and solve together for long term sustainable change. File photo Anemia: Consequence Of Intergenerational Malnutrition Focusing on adolescent girls before they become mothers is critical to break India’s vicious cycle of malnutrition. The WHO in its nutrition factsheet states that “Maternal and child under-nutrition is a largely preventable cause of more than 3.5 million deaths annually, accounting for 35 percent of the disease burden among children under 5, and 11 percent of the total global disease burden.” And some of these statistics in India can be linked to the intergenerational nutrition gap that is prevalent in the country today.