Eating right, from infancy onwards
This article discusses the importance of exclusive breastfeeding for infant health and development, highlighting current trends and challenges in India. It also touches upon the government's efforts to regulate unhealthy food consumption.
Why it matters
Public health initiatives regarding infant nutrition are critical for long-term population health and reducing infectious disease rates.
On breastfeeding, battling junk food and infectious diseases, the increasing menace of drugs, social media impacting lives, and more
Open any social media page and look for posts on motherhood and you’ll be deluged with narratives about how glorious, rewarding and fulfilling it is. And while all of that may be true, what is also true is that mothers in our country often do not get even a fraction of the support they need to safeguard the health of both newborns, and their own.
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