PIPAL: People’s Initiative for Participatory Action for food Labelling

 https://english.junputh.com/open-space/double-burden-of-malnutrition-worries-young-mothers-in-musahar-villages/ Double burden of malnutrition worries young mothers in Musahar villages December 22, 2021  -  by  Tarun Kanti Bose  -  Leave a Comment Spread the love COVID-19’s impact on child survival, health, and nutrition has been extensive due to the failure of the economic machinery. Children of Musahar community, the most marginalized among dalits, eat cheap packaged foods including crunchy, chips, and cream biscuits in Annai and neighbouring villages of Badagaon administrative block of Varanasi district which have high salt and sugar levels. Unregulated and ultra-processed packaged foods with high salt, sugar, and fat levels have contributed to this double burden of malnutrition and increased non-communicable disease (NCD) susceptibility. Young mothers are worried as their children’s addiction to packaged foods causes liver ailments, causing their brains to fail, dumbness, frustrati

"My life partner and I both have hectic work schedules and long hours working on  ground for the rights of marginalised people . This doesn't leave us much time to prepare homemade meals. So we often depend on packaged food. I lost my immunity due to my ignorance of its harmful effects. COVID made me realise this. After my 12-day stay in the ICU due to COVID-19 infection in the second pandemic wave, I became more aware of my health and optimized my nutrition (high protein-rich diet) for boosting my immunity. I became aware that packaged food, which is high in fat, sugar, and salt, leads to obesity, as well as diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, and other non-communicable diseases (NCDs).  While working among the marginalised, my alertness towards the packaged foods became my strength to spearhead a campaign for strong Front of Package Labelling (FOPL) in India for combatting NCD, childhood obesity, diabetes, hypertension and other diseases."  says  Dr Lenin Raghuvanshi

 Tweet a letter to national President of BJP on 28 August, 2021.Link: https://twitter.com/pvchr/status/1431584272897302528?s=20 Tweet a letter on birthday of PM (17 September) Link: https://twitter.com/neodalit/status/1438770498075119624?s=20

Public Dialogue on Children’s Nutritional rights and Package food Labelling:  Addressing Double burden of Malnutrition in India  Date: 2 nd  December, 2021  Time: 3:00 to 5:00 pm with High Tea  Venue: Hotel Diamond, Bhelupur, Varanasi Total participation: 213   Sub-optimal or poor nutrition is escalating diet related non communicable diseases (DR-NCDs) in India, putting at risk millions of children. A country with the greatest number of malnourished children in the world, India is home to around 15 million obese children and 45 million who are stunted. At a public dialogue in Varanasi, senior members of major political parties came together to sound a clarion call for India to adopt front-of-pack labels (FOPL), an important and timely policy fix to address the country’s double burden of malnutrition (DBM). Recent studies of low and middle income countries with DBM have revealed that children and adults in the poorest income quintile face a greater prevalence of overweig