Growth Meter for Healthier & Weltheir India!

Srinivasa K. Rao, Ph.D.
5 min readMar 25, 2023

To achieve the $5 Trillion economic goal, India needs a simple tool to reduce Malnutrition, the principal cause of disease burden!

Prepared by Srinivasa K. Rao, Ph.D.

MALNUTRITION IS STILL A MAJOR PROBLEM IN INDIA

https://www.indiatoday.in/diu/story/mapping-child-malnutrition-levels-india-assembly-up-bihar-jharkhand-food-1880984-2021-11-26

The annual increase in chObesitysity in India between 2010–30 is projected to be "very high", at 10·8%, according to the World Obesity Atlas 2022. The report notes that children living with Obesity are more likely to have poorer health in childhood, including hypertension and metabolic disorders. If we add the problem of Obesity to the undernourished children in India, a third of the children are not healthy, and they will not grow to be healthy adults!

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Prepared by Srinivasa K. Rao, Ph.D.

Malnutrition is a silent emergency and a leading cause of morbidity and mortality amongst children under 5 (U5C). There are intra and inter‑generational consequences of…

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Srinivasa K. Rao, Ph.D.
Srinivasa K. Rao, Ph.D.

Written by Srinivasa K. Rao, Ph.D.

Biomedical Scientist in New York is interested in Nutrition, Metabolomics, Food as Medicine, STEM and AI. https://www.linkedin.com/in/sraonewyrok/

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