Dietary Guidelines for Indians-2024: A Critical Appraisal
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Dietary guidelines play a pivotal role in guiding individuals towards selecting appropriate foods in adequate quantities across a range of food groups and achieving dietary diversity; thereby facilitating optimal nutrition throughout the lifecycle. These guidelines can also help in addressing the escalating incidence of under-/malnutrition, overweight/obesity and the non-communicable diseases like type-2 diabetes, hypertension, coronary artery disease and cancers in India. Estimates indicate that 56.4% of the total disease burden is due to unhealthy diets (1). Nutritionally appropriate diets and physical activity can substantially reduce the incidence of coronary heart disease and hypertension; and prevent up to 80 per cent of type 2 diabetes. A significant proportion of premature deaths can also be averted by adopting a healthy lifestyle (1).
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1. ICMR-NIN. Dietary Guidelines for Indians. Indian Council for Medical Research/National Institute of Nutrition (7th May 2024) https://www.nin.res.in/dietaryguidelines/pdfjs/locale/DGI07052024P.pdf (accessed on 4th October 2024)
2. Passi SJ. Dietary Guidelines for Indians-2024 - for Appropriate Nutrition & Health Promotion of the masses. Kurukshetra. October-2024; 72(12): 22-26. DOI: https://doi.org/10.56450/JEFI.2024.v2i04.008
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