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Nutritional Status of School Going Children in India: A Review
Author(s): Brij Pal Singh and Mahak Sharma*
Good nutrition means a stronger immune system, low illness, better health, and a productive society. In India, most
school-age children are malnourished, mainly undernourished. This review has been done to know the prevalence of
wasting, stunting, overweight, and obesity among children in rural as well as urban areas of different areas in India.
For this purpose, thirty studies were reviewed by using different sources such as Research Gate, PubMed, Google
Scholar, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, and surveys of different agencies such as websites of the Ministry
of Women and Child Development Government of India and different state governments. Dietary recalls structured
interviews and anthropometric measurements were used in all the studies for data collection. Results from the various
studies show that the underweight children range from 6.6% to 83%. Prev.. Read More»
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