Lifestyle diseases are increasing alarmingly in India. We are also dealing with large scale malnutrition in the population. Is there any method by which we can address both of these problems together?
Lack of balanced diet is the root cause of all lifestyle diseases and malnutrition. A person who takes carbohydrate and fat-rich diet and ignores protein, vitamins and minerals is more likely to suffer from lifestyle diseases. Malnutrition happens because of the lack of most of the nutrients in the diet. Ensuring the availability of all kinds of food (in terms of available nutrients) is one way of tackling these problems. Another method could be by using biofortification to improve the availability of all the nutrients in food.