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Lack of dietary diversity--adequate intake of food from all the food groups -- can be more harmful to health than infectious diseases

India may be the world’s second largest producer of food, but it has its second largest undernourished population. Further, more than half of women in India suffer from anaemia, which is one of the reasons for the high rate of low-birth weight babies. An unbalanced diet and lack of food is directly linked to high rates of stunting, excessive weight, and death in children under five years of age. The Government of India has implemented programme

Diet diversity is not a luxury but a national imperative. India has the knowledge and the models; what it needs now is scale and convergence