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Diet Diversity – Beyond Calories to Quality Nutrition

Advocacy for healthy diets: Nutrition brief series – Nutrition matters: Diet diversity

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Highlights

From everyday meals to community food systems, nutrition diversity is emerging as a cornerstone of good health. UNICEF India’s fifth brief in the Advocacy for Healthy Diets series, explains why a variety of foods is essential for physical growth, cognitive development, disease prevention, and long-term well-being. Drawing on Indian data and global evidence, it highlights how diets dominated by staples and processed foods lead to deficiencies, obesity, and an increase in non-communicable diseases, while diverse diets help build resilience, immunity, and equity across all age groups.