PRACTICE OF RELIGIOUS BLACK THREAD AROUND WAIST IN CHILDREN: A NOVEL DIAGNOSTIC TOOL amp; EARLY PREDICTOR OF UNDERWEIGHT AND OVERWEIGHT CHILD

摘要

Practice of Religious Black Thread around waist in children : A Novel diagnostic tool & early predictor of underweight and overweight child. A very common practice in Maharashtra and Tamilnadu, it is tied around waist. The scientific purpose of the thread is indicator of nutrition. Malnutrition/ Over nutrition can be predicted with the simple, affordable, assessable beneficial black thread. With such a simple step, we are trying to curb down mortality and morbidity in INDIA due to Nutrition disorders.