Traditional Health Foods Security
as Corporate Social Responsibility
for Pregnant Women Health Monitoring
B.N. Lakshmi and T.S. Indumathi
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.
B.N. Lakshmi (&) Á T.S. Indumathi
PG Research Center, Visvesvaraya Technological Univeristy,
Mudenahalli, Belgaum, India
e-mail: keerthisri.20@gmail.com
T.S. Indumathi
e-mail: drindumathits@gmail.com
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
S. Nautiyal et al. (eds.), Climate Change Challenge (3C)
and Social-Economic-Ecological Interface-Building, Environmental Science,
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-31014-5_33
549
as Corporate Social Responsibility
for Pregnant Women Health Monitoring
B.N. Lakshmi and T.S. Indumathi
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.
B.N. Lakshmi (&) Á T.S. Indumathi
PG Research Center, Visvesvaraya Technological Univeristy,
Mudenahalli, Belgaum, India
e-mail: keerthisri.20@gmail.com
T.S. Indumathi
e-mail: drindumathits@gmail.com
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
S. Nautiyal et al. (eds.), Climate Change Challenge (3C)
and Social-Economic-Ecological Interface-Building, Environmental Science,
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-31014-5_33
549