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The School Gate as a Health Policy: India's Roadmap Against Childhood Diet Disease

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The Let's Fix Our Food consortium, a multi-institutional platform led by the ICMR-National Institute of Nutrition, released a policy roadmap in July 2026 for healthier diets among Indian children and adolescents, drawing on nearly three years of research and consultation. Its recommendations span healthier school food environments, front-of-pack nutrition labelling, stricter regulation of the marketing of unhealthy food to children, taxation of foods high in fat, salt and sugar, and nutrition literacy. The consortium also launched knowledge products including a Nutrition Environment Assessment Toolkit for Schools and an e-learning module on food labels. The framing marks a shift in how India approaches non-communicable disease: away from treating individuals after illness and toward changing the food environment that shapes what children eat before disease develops. India carries a rising burden of diet-related non-communicable disease alongside persistent undernutrition, a double burden the roadmap directly addresses.

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Q1. Which institution leads the Let's Fix Our Food consortium that released the policy roadmap on children's diets?

AThe Food Safety and Standards Authority of India.
BThe Indian Council of Medical Research–National Institute of Nutrition.
CThe National Institute of Health and Family Welfare.
DThe Ministry of Women and Child Development directly.
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SOCIETY & SOCIAL ISSUESApplicationMedium

Q2. The roadmap proposes taxing foods high in fat, salt and sugar as one instrument against diet-related disease. In India's context of a double burden of malnutrition, what is the principal design caution for such a tax?

AIt should be set high enough to eliminate all consumption of packaged food entirely.
BIt should be designed to shift consumption toward healthier options without reducing overall food access for those who remain undernourished.
CIt should apply equally to all foods regardless of nutrient content, to simplify administration.
DIt should replace all existing food subsidies with the revenue it raises.
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SOCIETY & SOCIAL ISSUESAnalysisHard

Q3. Consider the following statements about the roadmap's approach to diet-related non-communicable disease: 1. It treats the food environment — prices, marketing and availability — as the object of regulation, rather than relying only on exhorting individuals to make better choices. 2. Restricting the marketing of unhealthy food to children draws on the same reasoning used to restrict advertising of other harmful products to minors. 3. Because dietary choice is ultimately an individual matter, structural measures such as labelling and marketing rules have no bearing on what children eat. Which of the statements given above are correct?

A1 and 2 only
B1 only
C2 and 3 only
D1, 2 and 3
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