The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has launched a remarkable initiative to improve the eating habits of children. The education board thus started Sugar Boards across the country’s schools.
What is Sugar Boards? CBSE’s new initiative to reduce diabetes risk in children, will it work?
Cases of obesity and risk of diabetes have been rising among school students due to their wrong food habits like eating junk foods, frozen, fried and so on. As this is both alarming and concerning, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has launched a remarkable initiative to improve the eating habits of children. The education board thus started Sugar Boards across the country’s schools. This is an educational step through which the students would be aware of excess sugar, cultivate healthier habits, to lessen the impact of lifestyle diseases in the coming generation.
This programme has been adopted amid statistical data suggesting higher consumption of sugar in children, more than recommended. The new CBSE guidelines have referred to many health studies. These studies reveal that children between the age of 4 and 10 years get 13% of their daily dose of calories from sugar, and those between the age of 11 to 18 consume even higher, as much as 15%. The World Health Organization has recommended a limit of 5% of daily sugar dose.
As part of this new CBSE initiative, schools would need to install Suga
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