Let's Fix Our Food
Advancing India's Young People's Right to Healthy Foods and Healthy Food Environments
Highlights
A healthy food selection allows adolescents to live well, explore, extend life, form relationships, learn, build economic opportunities and contribute to society. However, easy access of unhealthy food option, inadequate access to nutrition knowledge, the lack of availability and affordability of healthy foods such as fruits and nuts can lead to cognitive decline and a higher likelihood of diseases.
'Let's Fix Our Food' is an initiative jointly led by ICMR-National Institute of Nutrition, Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) and UNICEF in collaboration with consortium partners, including the Institute of Economic Growth (IEG), the World Health Organisation, Deakin University and the World Obesity Federation, to enable adolescents to participate in and create a conducive food environment for children and adolescents in the country. This conversation is critical because 24% of adolescents are underweight in India'. Over 17 million children and adolescents in India are affected by obesity². This number can cross 27 million by 2030 unless we take proactive action today³. This dual burden of malnutrition can be addressed through common strategies.
