The sensational annual headline, engulfing the media even today, is that India is doing abysmally on the Global Hunger Index (GHI) and has slipped much more than its neighbors. Hunger is a complex construct with emotional overtones. However, lay people and stakeholders instantly connect with the dictionary definition of hunger as having a desire, craving, or need for food, and this term should, therefore, be used with extreme care. It raises the false specter of widespread and profound dietary energy deficit leading to undernutrition, with potentially inappropriate policy responses. Consider this counter-narrative: no less than 1 in 2 Indian children, even among the impoverished, whether thin, stunted or not, are actually over-nourished (or “metabolically obese”), with high blood sugar, or cholesterol or high blood pressure. This is because of excess fat accumulation in a thin body frame, probably from cereal overfeeding. Further, overnutrition-associated Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) like diabetes, hypertension, heart disease and stroke are rapidly escalating in India, and appearing at younger ages.
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