Unicef recipes for healthy kids: Paneer rolls, uttapam
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Unhealthy stats
35% of children under five are stunted, 17% wasted and 33% underweight, as per nutrition survey
Anaemia affects 40% adolescent girls and 18% of adolescent boys
10% of overweight children and adolescents at risk of non-communicable diseases like diabetes
New Delhi, November 17
From paneer kathi roll to uttapam to sprouted dal parantha, a book by Unicef tells how to tackle problems of underweight, obesity and anaemia among children by consuming nutritious food that costs less than Rs 20.
The report also found that overweight and obesity increasingly begins in childhood with a growing threat of non-communicable diseases like diabetes (10 per cent) in school-aged children and adolescents.
The 28-page book, based on the findings of the Comprehensive National Nutrition Survey 2016-18, lists out recipes of freshly prepared foods, also giving the cost of preparation of each of them.
For tackling underweight, the books lists recipes like potato-stuffed parantha, paneer kathi roll and sago cutlets while for tackling obesity, there are suggestions of sprouted dal parantha, poha and vegetable upma.
Apart from calorie count, the book gives detailed break up of protein, carbohydrate, fat, total fibre, iron, vitamin C and calcium content of the recipe. UNICEF chief Henrietta H Fore said the booklet aims to tell people what is nutritious and in what amount.
Fore said there are two stages in a person’s life when nutrition is extremely important. “The first is in the first 1,000 days of a child and for that we need to reach young mothers and second is when you are in adolescence and for that we need to go into schools,” said Fore. PTI
