Nutrients are components of food in form of chemical compound that helps in proper
functioning and health maintainace of an individual. Nutrients helps to fulfills biological and
physiological process of our body which is commonly known as Nutrition. It plays an
important role to maintain growth, reproduction, overall health and increase immunity to
fight against the deadly microorganisms. The condition of imbalance, deficiency or excess of
nutrition is known as Malnutrition, which may results in underweight, overweight, low
birthweight, under five stunting & wasting, obesity, diabetic, etc. In India, total
undernourished population exceeds 14% of the entire population. Among that one in every
five children is under weight, one in every three is stunted. Anemia affects more than half of
all women of reproductive age. As per Global Nutrition Report 2020, India has 4,66,00,000
children stunted, which places it 3rd in the World. Half of population of children below the
age of five years die as result of malnutrition. The nutritional well-being of a population is a
reflection of the performance of its social and economic sector and this issue of Malnutrition
needs to be taken care properly. There are multiple programs, policies and schemes currently
in place by government as well as non- government organizations to address these issues.
This review article elaborates on nutritional needs, sources, Malnutrition and disorders
associated with it.It also throws light on Nutritional status of India and major schemes
introduced by the Government of India to fight Nutrition as a public health challenge.
Keywords: Challenges, India, Malnutrition, Nutrition, Public health, Schemes
Publication date: 01/08/2022
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