Less than 20% urban kids in India eat fruits once a day: Survey
Only 18 percent of urban children in grade six to 10 in India eat fruits every day, show results of a survey, revealing poor eating habits of a vast majority of kids in the country. At 14 percent, the proportion of children eating protein once a day is even lower showed the survey by Podar Education Group which runs over 100 schools spread across the country.
The survey involved responses from 1,350 parents of children studying in grade six to 10 in India's metro cities. The results showed that only 35 percent of the children consume vegetables as part of every meal.
"The World Health Organisation (WHO) does say that childhood obesity is an 'exploding nightmare' in the developing world," said Raghav Podar, Trustee, Podar Education Group, in a statement.
"Healthy childhoods are critical to the country, and require strong cohesive work between the parents and schools," Podar said. The survey evaluating the eating habits across food categories in young school children in India also found that 50 percent of them consume junk food, sweets or other unhealthy food almost on daily basis.
"This survey clearly indicates that teaching a child about good nutrition is not just about giving them a list of healthy foods that he or she can eat, but more about 'how much' and 'when' to eat," child nutritionist Sripriya Venkiteswaran said.
The silver lining is that almost 76 percent of the parents said that their kids play some outdoor sport. About 24 percent said their children do not play outdoors at all.
13.10.2017
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