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Achieving Zero Hunger By 2030 And Preventing Nutritional Starvation

You walk into any school canteen during the recess or short-break as some call it and you will find the students gorging over items like Samosa, Vada Pav, Patties other such carbohydrate-dense food items. You will not fail to notice that many of these children are obese. The recess time is no longer an opportunity for short-burst of play activity like catching cook we grew-up. Recess is food time.  As a result, today’s young generation are overfed on energy and underfed on nutrients. The skewed choice of food is not just limited to urban privileged kids but also a trend was seen among the lesser privileged kids living in shanties or slums in urban cities. This young girl through her short video suggests a way her generation can achieve zero hunger by 2030 while also ensuring that our populace is not a victim of nutritional starvation.  The model suggested here is easily replicable through volunteering program.  The United Nations promotes the Zero Hunger Challenge with