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Looking Past the Indian Calorie Debate: What is Happening to Nutrition Transition in India

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  • Md Zakaria Siddiqui
  • Ronald Donato
  • Jaya Jumrani

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We utilise large national household datasets for 1993–1994, 2004–2005 and 2011–2012 to analyse factors influencing changing patterns in per capita calorie consumption in India. Our study findings demonstrate the significance of the disease environment in which people live, with those living in healthy areas having lower calorie consumption than those living in less healthy ones. Calorie intake has been falling in India, but the study findings reveal that fat calorie intake has been rising successively over time among the rural and poorer urban sub-populations raising concerns for policy-makers that non-communicable diseases are expected to rise for these vulnerable population groups.

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  • Md Zakaria Siddiqui & Ronald Donato & Jaya Jumrani, 2019. "Looking Past the Indian Calorie Debate: What is Happening to Nutrition Transition in India," Journal of Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 55(11), pages 2440-2459, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jdevst:v:55:y:2019:i:11:p:2440-2459
    DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2017.1408798
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    1. Jumrani, Jaya, 2023. "How responsive are nutrients in India? Some recent evidence," Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 114(C).
    2. Neda Yousefian & Elena Wenninger & Christoph Dittrich, 2022. "Shifts in Food Consumption Practices among Middle-Class Households in Bengaluru, India," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(20), pages 1-22, October.
    3. Brinda Viswanathan & Archana Agnihotri, 2020. "Double Burden of Malnutrition in India: Decadal Changes among Adult Men and Women," Working Papers 2020-200, Madras School of Economics,Chennai,India.
    4. Archana Agnihotri & Brinda Viswanathan, 2021. "Gender Differences in Double Burden of Malnutrition in India: Quantile Regression Estimates," Working Papers 2021-208, Madras School of Economics,Chennai,India.
    5. Gautam Hazarika & Sourabh Bikas Paul, 2021. "India’s calorie consumption puzzle: insights from the stochastic cost frontier analysis of calorie purchases," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 60(6), pages 2993-3010, June.

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