National Nutrition Week is being celebrated from 1st to 7th September, 2012 and theme for this year is:
‘Nutrition Awareness-Key to Healthy Nation’.
During the week, issues such as appropriate diet to be taken during adolescent, pregnancy, lactation, infancy and young childhood would be discussed and awareness to be created amongst the people. He said that nutrition was a key to survival, health and development an individual and mainly constitutes the foundation of over all personality development.Articles/ Reading Material on Nutrition at this website is listed below :
- Nutrition: What is Nutrition and Nutrients
- Introducing Solids - Comlimentary Feeding
- Common Micronutrient Deficiency Diseases
- Malnutrition: Early Detection
- Malnutrition : Signs and Symptoms
- Malnutrition: Impact
- Malnutrition: Underlying Causes
- Malnutrition: Micronutrient Deficiencies
- Malnutrition: Anthropometric Definitions