Malnutrition in kids leads to diabetes, low IQ
East Indians should know this better than Brits
11 Jan, 2006 l 0206 hrs ISTlC Shamsher/TIMES NEWS NETWORK
CHANDIGARH: Diabetes and cardiovascular diseases may be due to malnutrition during childhood. Not many would know this, but such chronic diseases in later stages of life have a link with malnutrition in early childhood.
Malnourished children also have low IQ. During the deliberations at the workshop organised here in Chandigarh, various participants confirmed that malnutrition was a serious issue throughout the country, including the six north Indian states of Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab, Uttranchal and Chandigarh UT.
Even though there was no food shortage in these six states, all had a perennial problem of malnutrition among women, and child. It was not restricted to families living below the poverty line, but is seen in well-to-do families also.
Shashi P Gupta, Technical Adviser, department of Women and Child Development said, the effects of malnutrition could have negative impact on various organs of your body including liver, kidney, and heart later in your life.
In the families which have over-abundance of food, malnutrition takes place because of the vegetarian culture among children.
For the growing children, non-vegetarian diet is very important. It has all the high quality nutrients and proteins. |
