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Prescription to NHS: Nourish the Malnourished, For a Well-Fed Economy!

Patients, most often the elderly are wanting in good health and nourishment. Now, Doctors and nurses in the NHS have been asked to give better care, especially to elderly patients who are deficient in nourishment.// ..The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice) has recommended initial screening of all out-patients, prior to admission, so that malnutrition can be detected bef...

Madhya Pradesh Has India's Most Malnourished Kids

If you ask about her child, Sita Devi's eyes well up with tears. A few months ago, her eight-month-old kid died in her arms. Although she managed to take her daughter from her impoverished Sagmal village //to the Barwani District Hospital, it was too late. ....'Still we tried our best,' said a senior doctor in the hospital, adding it was a case of severe malnutrition. 'But the child had stopped r...

50% Of India’s Children Are Malnourishe

According to the survey conducted by India's National Family Health Survey, half the children’s population// in India is malnourished. This survey covers around 200,000 people and is the third one since 1992-1993. ....On a comparative note, the survey indicates that infant mortality in rural areas is 62% while it is 42% in urban regions. Underweight children account for are 46% while in China i...

New Standards Could Cut Number of Malnourished Children on Feeding Programs

The introduction of new standards to assess nutrition in children could lead to confusion and a cut in the numbers of malnourished children eligible// for emergency feeding programs, warn researchers in this week’s BMJ. ....According to the UN World Food Program, the number of nutritional emergencies has risen over the last twenty years, from an average of 15 per year during the 1980s to more th...