India's Women and Child Development Ministry disputes Harvard study claiming 19.3% Indian children as 'zero-food children'.
India's Women and Child Development Ministry has refuted a Harvard study published in the JAMA Network Open, which claimed that 19.3% of children in India are 'zero-food children', meaning they have not consumed any milk, formula, or food in the preceding 24 hours. The Ministry has labelled the report as a "deliberate and malicious attempt to sensationalize fake news", stating that it lacks primary research and relies on broad, incorrect generalizations about the nutritional status of Indian children.
March 12, 2024
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