Overnutrition

There has been a rise in obesity among children under five years of age with 33 states and union territories registering a spike in the number of overweight children, according to the latest National Family Health Survey (NFHS).

Countries like India are in a phase of transition where the public policy challenges presented by overnutrition are in addition to those posed by undernutrition.There is need for concerted action across both nutrition specific and nutrition sensitive interventions to accelerate progress on all the nutrition-related SDGs.

There has been a rise in obesity among children under five years of age with 33 states and union territories registering a spike in the number of overweight children, according to the latest National Family Health Survey (NFHS).

Countries like India are in a phase of transition where the public policy challenges presented by overnutrition are in addition to those posed by undernutrition.There is need for concerted action across both nutrition specific and nutrition sensitive interventions to accelerate progress on all the nutrition-related SDGs.