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Avoid consanguineous marriages – a main cause for disability.
Children need more love than toys to develop. Parent´s love, attention and interaction is crucial for infant´s healthy development and well being.
Low birth weight increases the risk of coronary heart disease, diabetes, hypertension and stroke in adulthood.
Ensure proper nutrition to children during their first two years to prevent the irreparable, lifelong harm that results from early childhood under nutrition
Preventing infants and young children from becoming undernourished is much more effective than treating children who are already moderately malnourished.
Every second newborn has reduced learning capacity due to iodine deficiency – use and promote iodised salt.
Use iodised salt – prevent physical and mental impairment, cretinism, deaf function, hyperthyroidism (goiter), increased rate of abortions and still births.
By breast feeding, mother sheds weight gained during pregnancy and regains her original posture.
Smoking and alcohol is one of the most common cause of male impotence. It causes loss of sperm cells and increase in abnormal sperms leading to abnormalities in newborns.
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Andhra Pradesh is one of the few States in the Country, with a separate Secretariat Department for the Welfare of Women and Children. The Women's Welfare Dept., was established in the erstwhile Madras state in 1952 with special programs for Women and Children by converting the activities of the Indian Women's civil corps started by the wives of the military officers to take care of the war widows and their Children, after 2nd World War . With reorganization of States, Andhra state come into existence in 1953 and Women Welfare activities continued with the Women Welfare department at the directorate level.

 
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