Page 35 - Mann Ki Baat - English, August 2022

GEETA PHOGAT
Wrestler, Commonwealth Gold Medalist

Geeta Phogat in conversation our children as well as in ourselves,
with Doordarshan about the like eating more home-cooked
importance of a balnced diet and food and less outside food. Give
proper nutrition. milk, curd, ghee, salad, vegetable
to the children—a full meal. The
“First of all, I want to thank the
child should be breastfed till
Prime Minister for mentioning such
a huge campaign on 'Mann ki Baat'. one year and then gradually fed
home-cooked food grains. The
Only by talking about malnutrition,
making people aware of it and Prime Minister has launched a
campaign against malnutrition
by explaining the problems of
malnutrition to children and and all of us should work together
to get rid of malnutrition from our
parents, can we overcome this
issue and make India malnutrition country.
I am an athlete and my
free in the coming times.
A balanced diet is not only approach to fight malnutrition
would be to play more. I think the
for the people suffering from
malnutrition but for every person. more we play sports, the more
we sweat, the more we will feel
It matters to everyone, especially
children. I have a son and people hungry and then we will need
the same diet. And if the diet
ask me about what should they
feed their children. I want to say is balanced, then this problem
called malnutrition will go away
this to all the parents that we
should inculcate certain habits in on its own.”
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