{
  "id": 8251095,
  "title": "Uttar Pradesh Records 8.2 Percentage Point Drop In Child Stunting, NFHS-6 Shows Improvement In Nutrition Indicators",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/18/uttar-pradesh-records-8-2-percentage-point-drop-in-child-stunting",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-09-18T12:11:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Press Journal",
    "slug": "free-press-journal",
    "url": "https://www.freepressjournal.in/uttar-pradesh/uttar-pradesh-records-82-percentage-point-drop-in-child-stunting-nfhs-6-shows-improvement-in-nutrition-indicators"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Lucknow, September 18: Positive changes are becoming visible in the health and nutrition profile of Uttar Pradesh children due to the efforts of the Yogi government. A significant decline has been recorded in stunting, that is, the problem of low height in proportion to age, among children below five years of age in the state. While the percentage of such children in the state was 39.7 in the…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}