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Defining Malnutrition in India: how much is too Little, how much is too Much?


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1 Department of Anthropology, Dinabandhu Mahavidyalaya, Bongaon, North 24 Parganas 743 235, India
2 Department of Anthropology, Vidyasagar University, Midnapore, India
 

In spite of significant economic growth during the last few decades, India is still suffering from a huge load of malnutrition. Undernutrition in India is amongst one of the highest in the world. India also has a double burden of undernutrition and overnutrition. The cut-off points of measures to define nutritional status and body composition are based on researches mostly on people of non-Indian ancestry. These seem to be inappropriate considering the inherent difference in body composition from the Westerners and also the great Indian population diversity.
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Raja Chakraborty
Department of Anthropology, Dinabandhu Mahavidyalaya, Bongaon, North 24 Parganas 743 235, India
Kaushik Bose
Department of Anthropology, Vidyasagar University, Midnapore, India

Abstract


In spite of significant economic growth during the last few decades, India is still suffering from a huge load of malnutrition. Undernutrition in India is amongst one of the highest in the world. India also has a double burden of undernutrition and overnutrition. The cut-off points of measures to define nutritional status and body composition are based on researches mostly on people of non-Indian ancestry. These seem to be inappropriate considering the inherent difference in body composition from the Westerners and also the great Indian population diversity.


DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv106%2Fi5%2F670-672