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Nutrition Policy in India is based on ensuring access to adequate food and appropriate caring practices; however, changing dietary patterns, inadequate calorie consumption and unawareness of the nutritive content of different foods also adversely impact nutrition outcomes. This chapter looks into changes in dietary patterns over time as well as trends in household food expenditure. Comparisons between rural and urban households are made with a view to identifying explanatory variables. A classification of the major Indian states on the basis of a composite index of nutrition outcomes is attempted and dietary diversification in the best and worst performing states with reference to nutrition is analysed.
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Food systems in economic transition and their significance for change in dietary patterns was the underlying theme of a sub-regional workshop jointly organized by IFAD and UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia in Kathmandu, Nepal, February 1992.
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The term ‘diet’ is used here with the generic meaning of combinations of foods prepared to become daily meals for human beings.
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Such effects on dietary choices, in combination with social pressure on limited budgets for expenditures other than on food, has in some countries led to what has been called the ‘second generation of nutrition problems'. This point was especially highlighted in the final report of the IFAD Nutrition Programming Mission to the Second Badulla Integrated Rural Development Project in Sri Lanka (June 1992).
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The population is divided into 10 decile classes of MPCE, the first decile corresponding to the bottom 10Â % of the population and increasing progressively to reach the top 10Â % of the population at the 10th decile.
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Ramachandran, N. (2014). Changing Calorie Consumption and Dietary Patterns. In: Persisting Undernutrition in India. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1832-6_2
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