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Malnutrition has become silent emergency
Special Correspondent
CHENNAI: As the Union Ministry of Women and Child Development observes its annual National Nutrition Week this week throughout the country, there is little to cheer about the state of the country s nutrition, experts say.
Malnutrition in India is so acute that it has become a silent emergency, said M.S. Swaminathan, agricultural scientist and chairman, M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, speaking here on Monday. Fortysix per cent of children in India under the age of three were malnourished, while 72 per cent of children below 12 months and 77 per cent between the ages of one and two were anaemic
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