The document discusses various causes and solutions for reducing malnutrition. It notes that irregular meal timings and indigestible, expensive foods consumed by wealthy families can cause malnutrition. Other causes mentioned include dirty environments from places like factories and homes, lack of exercise, diseases, and lack of breastfeeding. Solutions proposed are regular health checks in remote areas, parental education programs in schools, medical student community outreach, reforming social welfare programs, and collective efforts to address issues like poverty and lack of education that enable malnutrition.

1. NOURISH TO FLOURISH:
REDUCING
MALNUTRITION

2. Indigestive and harmful diet:
• Intake of indigestive and harmful diet.
• Children belonging to the rich families do have
expensive food items but in general these food
items are indigestive and harmful.
Lack of regulated diet:
• The timings for breakfast, lunch and dinner must
more or less be fixed.
• This bad habit of time taking irregular meals
causes indigestion and finally results in
malnutrition.

3. General causes:
Dirty Environment: This includes home and
schools which causes malnutrition.
:The children working in glass factories,
leather industry etc face the kind of dirty,
unhygienic and unhealthy environment,
which is hard to imagine.
:hence child labor must also be completely
banned so as to avoid the children from
such filthy environment.

4. • All the certified does in an area should take the responsibility to
send a doctor to the backward areas once every month and
give a free treatment and educate them about malnutrition
• All the schools should conduct a parent teacher compulsory
meeting to explain problems on malnutrition
• All the medical students should conduct medicinal campaign
backward areas before they receive their respective degrees and
try to create awareness in the people living in the area about
breast feeding and healthy nutritional habits
• Registration to backward castes should be cancelled and shifted
to registration based on income so that all the people get equal
education and awareness to fight against these problems
• YOU should take equal responsibility to eradicate malnutrition as
child labour,child beggars, uneducated
children,poverty,uneducated parents are the reasons so we have
to work to get together to make a better INDIA

5. Bodily diseases:
• Many children being infected from the
diseases are neither able to have balanced diet
nor their bodily functions take place properly
resulting in malnutrition.
• Due to Heavy Work
• Lack of Exercise and

6. • Breastfeeding a baby exclusively for the first 6 months, and then continued
breastfeeding in addition to appropriate solid foods until 12 months a Less illness
Babies who are fed breast milk have a lower risk of :
• gastro-intestinal (gut) illness
• allergies
• asthma
• diabetes
• obesity
• some childhood cancers
• respiratory tract (chest) infections
• Breastfed babies are less likely to be hospitalized.
• Perfect Food
Breast milk has important ingredients, that are not found in any infant formula, to
build the baby’s immune system. Breast milk changes from feed to feed to suit each
baby’s unique needs, making it the perfect food to promote healthy growth and
development.

7. Causes of Malnutrition
Malnutrition/Death
Inadequate dietary intake Disesase
Insufficient
Household food
MANIFESTATIONS
IMMEDIATE
CAUSES
UNDERLYING
CAUSES
BASIC
CAUSES
Political and Economical powers
Inadequate Maternal
Childcare
Insufficient Health
Services/Unhealthy
Environment
Modified from UNICEF 1998