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- The Minister also launched
(1) The new Eat Right India logo (that represents a healthy plate)
(2) An online eat right quiz
(3) Online course for frontline health workers.
- Why the Need for Preventive Health – increasing burden of non-communicable diseases including
(1) Diabetes
(2) Hypertension and heart diseases
(3) Deficiencies of vitamins and minerals
(4) Rampant food-borne illnesses
- About the Eat Right India movement
(1) A preventive healthcare measure to trigger social and behavioural change
(2) This change is to brought through a mix of regulatory measures, combined with soft interventions for ensuring awareness and capacity building of food businesses and citizens alike.
- Aligned with plans – This movement is aligned with other public health programmes such as
(1) POSHAN Abhiyaan,
(2) Anemia Mukt Bharat,
(3) Ayushman Bharat Yojana
(4) Swachh Bharat Mission.
- Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has set up a regulatory framework based on three pillarsEat Safe, Eat Health and Eat Sustainablyfor the programme.
- FSSAI has prescribed a limit for Total Polar Compounds (TPC) at 25% in cooking oil to avoid the harmful effects of reused cooking oil.
Source
The Hindu