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Nutrition education can be helpful. Poor people (and middle class people, and rich people) spend much on poor nutrition foods, and not enough on vegetables and pulses, but vegetables can be grown in the households for children (especially in rural areas), and need not be overcooked. Milk is expensive. The high growth may not have reached poor nutrition families in rural areas, and those who migrate to high growth cities, e.g. rickshaw pullers, face higher prices and/or money delusion (the price of this vegetable is so high here, in my village it was only ...).