Social implications of women's health status

It is a proven fact that that there is a strong symbiotic relationship between a mother's health and that of her progeny's. The reason is simple. An infant gets nourishment from its mother directly right from the pre-natal state to its toddler stage. Now, in India, a woman is not encouraged to have adequate nourishment. In many regions she lives in a semi-starved condition, if not worse. But, no sooner she gets pregnant than she is plied with all sorts of nutritious intakes in the mistaken belief that these would go directly to the infant (the zeal to provide such nourishment is redoubled if there is proof that the baby would be a male - something that has become possible thanks to the easy access to hi-tech diagnostics despite all sorts of laws forbidding gender related pregnancy tests). Unfortunately, such short term dietary excesses do not do much good to the mother or the child. Consequently, there is a real danger of India turning into a nation of weaklings.

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