by PARIVARTAN SANDESH FOUNDATION
$8,000.00
Donation Goal

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under The Umberala parivartan sandesh Foundation - annaPatra.org

High #infant and maternal #mortality and #malnutrition continue to be a scourge in #India, which has become byword for #poverty, #illiteracy and #deprivation #nationally. The #poor #nutritional status, especially in #urban rural, is the outcome of #complex and inter-related factors. These include the low-intake of #nutritious #food, non-availability of quality #health services, #absence of adequate #community health workers, low institutional delivery, poor sanitation and hygiene. In addition, social practices such as early marriage, pregnancy and lack of breastfeeding also contribute to higher malnutrition rate.

Many people are not able to provide nutritious food due to the #expensive price. This has an impact on pregnant women, lactating mothers and growing #children whereas the fulfillment of nutrition in the first 1,000 days of #childhood is very important for the #future.

The problem of malnutrition is not as simple as it looks from the outside. Nutrition problems, if not immediately followed up, can lead India to #unfavorable conditions. The onus on the #government is not to recognize that it is enough just to create policies but also to see out the #effectiveness of the policies.

Food availability is the key to affordable food #prices. But in reality, not all food #commodities produced by farmers can meet the needs of the #domestic #market. The #adoption of policies
that prevent market #mechanisms and #excessive import #restrictions is a cause of high food prices.

The government needs to #formulate more effective policies related to the availability of food and #affordable prices. If food is available and the price is affordable, people can meet the nutritional needs of their family members by not #spending nearly all of their income

The “feast or famine” situation is especially a problem for #low-income #parents, particularly mothers, who often #restrict their food intake and sacrifice their own nutrition in order to protect their children from #hunger. Such a coping mechanism puts them at risk for #obesity — and research shows that parental obesity, especially maternal obesity, is in turn a strong #predictor of childhood obesity.
Members of low-income families, including children, may face high levels of stress and poor #mental health due to the #financial and emotional #pressures of food #insecurity, low-wage
work, lack of access to health care, inadequate #transportation, poor housing, neighborhood violence, and other factors. A number of recent studies find associations between food #insecurity and stress, #depression, #psychological distress, and other mental #disorders.
Those who are eating less or #skipping meals to stretch food budgets may overeat when food does become available, resulting in chronic ups and downs in food intake that can contribute to #weight gain. Cycles of food #restriction or #deprivation also can lead to disordered eating behaviors, an unhealthy preoccupation with food, and metabolic changes that #promote fat storage — all the worse when combined with overeating. Unfortunately, #overconsumption is even easier given the availability of #cheap, #energy-dense foods in low-income communities.
When available, healthy food may be more expensive in terms of the #monetary cost as well as the #potential for waste, whereas refined #grains, added sugars, and fats are generally inexpensive, palatable, and readily available in low-income communities.
Households with limited resources to buy enough food often try to stretch their food #budgets by purchasing cheap, energy-dense foods that are filling – that is, they try to maximize their #calories per #rupee in order to stave off hunger. While less expensive, energy-dense foods typically have lower nutritional quality

https://www.annapatra.org/nutrient-to-all/



Donation Deadline
Thursday, Mar 31, 2022

Project Website
www.parivartansandeshfoundation.com / https://www.annapatra.org/

Project Location
C-26 Sec-61 Near Royal Tower,
Noida,
Uttar Pradesh 201301
India.


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