A recent research conducted by the university in the United States revealed that exposure to dirty cooking oil in India kills around 27 of 1000 babies and children in the country every year. New Delhi: Cooking oil plays a vital role in our regular diet and the wrong choice can significantly impact a child’s health. Children are more likely to have digestive health issues as compared to adults.
A recent research conducted by the university in the United States revealed that exposure to dirty cooking oil in India kills around 27 of 1000 babies and children in the country every year. According to the study, the death rate is higher in young girls as compared to boys in Indian households. This is not because girls are weak or vulnerable to pollution-linked respiratory diseases but because their families are less likely to manage the treatment when a young girl falls ill.
The report has been published in the Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organisation under the title ‘Cooking Fuel Choice and Child Mortality in India’. According to the lead author of the study, the first paper gave a robust causal estimate of the real cost of using biomass fuels for households in terms of the lives of young kids. For the study, a health survey was conducted for over 25 years, in which all kinds of polluting fuels used in households were identified.
The mortality rate is higher in girls than in boys According to the researchers, the household survey data was conducted from 1992 to 2016 to d.