Many people are not eating the right food. For some, it is simply a decision to stick with food they enjoy but

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Many people are not eating the right food. For some, it is simply a decision to stick with food they enjoy but which is not too healthy. This is leading to an increase in non- communicable disease. This is turn leads to major burden on our health- care systems that have the potential to derail the economic progress which is essential for the poor to improve their lives. For others, it is about limited access to nutritious food or a lack of affordability, leading to monotonous diets that to not provide the daily nutrients for them to develop fully. Part of the reason nutrition is under threat worldwide is that our food systems are not properly responding to nutritional needs. Somewhere along that long road from farm to fork, there are serious detours taking place. Which one of the following statements best reflects the crux of the passage?

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Option B is the correct answer because it directly addresses the primary issue identified in the passage. The text highlights that various factors, including individual choices, lack of affordability, and systemic failures from farm to fork, are preventing people from accessing nutritional food. It further explains how poor nutrition leads to health crises and economic instability. Since the passage concludes that our food systems are failing to respond to nutritional needs, the logical solution or crux is that policy debates must prioritize food based nutrition to address these multi dimensional challenges. Options A, C, and D are incorrect because they focus on specific technical or economic solutions that are not mentioned or supported by the broad scope of the text.

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The scheme of Universal Basic Income should be implemented worldwide as a way of poverty alleviation

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We must place food-based nutrition at the centre of our policy debate

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Nutritional status of food should be improved by creating appropriate genetically modified crops

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Using modern food processing technologies, we must fortify food items with required nutrient elements.

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