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 ICDS gets packaged food for the malnourished [1]

How does one treat a malnourished child? Common sense suggests a proper meal. Not good enough, says the Union Ministry of Women and Child Development. Its prescription is supplying an 80-g ready-to-eat dosage of 10 minerals and vitamins in specific proportions, besides proteins and carbohydrates. In other words, just pop a pill or munch a biscuit for your meal

Publication Date: 
14/03/2008
Savvy Soumya Misra [2]
Down to Earth [3]
Tags:
Food Supply [4], Nutrition [5], Malnutrition [6], Fast Foods [7], Food Process Industry [8], Child Health [9], Nutritional Diseases [10], Private Sector [11], Supreme Court [12], Government Of India (GOI) [13], NGO [14], India [15], Uttar Pradesh [16], Corruption [17]

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