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processed foods such as instantnoodies and
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most of them do not have the basic.
knowledge in proper nutntion with their
households suffenng as result. A study of the
Food and Nutrition Research Institute eveals
that 26% of children Upto two years old suffer
from chronic malnutrition, the highest inthe
past 10 years Undernutntion, described as