Nature Communications (Jul 2021)

Intergenerational nutrition benefits of India’s national school feeding program

  • Suman Chakrabarti,
  • Samuel P. Scott,
  • Harold Alderman,
  • Purnima Menon,
  • Daniel O. Gilligan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24433-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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India’s national school feeding program is the largest of its kind in the world, but the long-term program benefits on nutrition are unknown. Here, the authors show intergenerational program benefits, in that women who received free meals in primary school have children with improved linear growth.