Diets, Malnutrition, and Disease
Subtitle: The Indian Experience
Publisher: Oxford University Press India
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780198099215
Subjects: Malnutrition; Poverty; India, social conditions
Description: A comprehensive analysis of malnutrition in India, the meticulous exploration of dietary transition, poverty nutrition traps, links between multiple anthropometric failures among children and their vulnerability to infectious diseases. It looks at the abysmal performance of the public distribution system and presents a critique of its conversion into a universal food subsidy.