Traditional health foods security as corporate social responsibility for pregnant women health monitoring

Abstract

The changing climate activities have outlined several health risks generated by a warming and a more variable climate. Traditional foods in India are receiving greater attention in market and as a healthy food preventive for centuries. The term malnutrition is generally better understood than intelligence, behaviour, or mental development. There is a severe malnutrition prevailing among the low income groups of population comprising of adolescent girls, lactating and pregnant women. The present era is providing women a high rate of success in all fields, but yet women face problems in terms of nutrition health during the period of pregnancy. The period of pregnancy is one where women of all ages suffer from acute nutritional health problems and health abnormalities due to variations in a few physiological parameters like blood pressure (BP), blood glucose level (BGL) and weight. The magnitude and implications of the food security and nutritional problems in pregnant women call for urgent actions through corporate social responsibility in community development. Several research and evaluation studies conducted in the country reported that a multi-pronged approach including increased traditional food production, its equitable distribution, and nutrition intervention and nutrition education with respect to pregnant women need to be considered as the most important focal points. Traditional health foods help largely to counterpart this issue of malnutrition in pregnant women. Climate change can affect problems that are already huge, malnutrition lowers resistance to diseases resulting in morbidity, apathy, lethargy and reduction of working efficiency. Due to the lack of effective communication, many technologies to overcome malnutrition are not reaching to the vulnerable groups. Therefore, nutrition intervention and nutrition education are the most important focal points, and in viewpoint of achieving food security traditional foods have the potential.