title: Dietary and nutritional change in India: implications for strategies, policies, and interventions.
abstract: Despite the global transition to overnutrition, stunting affected approximately 159 million children worldwide in 2014, while an estimated 50 million children were wasted. India is an important front in the fight against malnutrition and is grappling with the coexistence of undernutrition, overnutrition, and micronutrient deficiencies. This report summarizes discussions on trends in malnutrition in India, its evolution in the context of economic growth, intrahousehold aspects, infant and young child feeding practices, women's status, maternal nutrition, and nutrition policymaking. The discussion focuses on a review of trends in malnutrition and dietary intakes in India in the context of economic change over the past four decades, identification of household dynamics affecting food choices and their consequences for family nutritional status in India, and effective malnutrition prevention and treatment interventions and programs in India and associated policy challenges.
authors.affiliation: SOAS, University of London, London, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Bhavani
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Shankar
authors.affiliation: Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India.
authors.forename: Sutapa
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Agrawal
authors.affiliation: The World Food Center, University of California, Davis, Davis, California.
authors.forename: Amy R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Beaudreault
authors.affiliation: National Institute of Nutrition, ICMR, Hyderabad, India.
authors.forename: Laxmaiah
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Avula
authors.affiliation: Hubert Department of Global Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.
authors.forename: Reynaldo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Martorell
authors.affiliation: Osendarp Nutrition, Berkel en Rodenrijs, the Netherlands.
authors.forename: Saskia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Osendarp
authors.affiliation: Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India.|Centre for Chronic Disease Control, Gurgaon, India.
authors.forename: Dorairaj
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Prabhakaran
authors.affiliation: The Sackler Institute for Nutrition Science, the New York Academy of Sciences, New York, New York.
authors.forename: Mireille Seneclauze
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Mclean
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004032:Diet; D005260:Female; D006130:Growth Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D044342:Malnutrition / Q000453:epidemiology; D039382:Maternal Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D018977:Micronutrients; D009752:Nutritional Status; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors
chemical_list: D018977:Micronutrients
keywords: India; diet; nutrition