Ministry Of Health Deletes It's Tweet On 'Good Nutrition' As Twitterati Accuses Them For 'Fat Shaming', 'Vegetarianism'

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) had to eat its own words after a Twitter outrage, where the Twitterati accused it of 'fat shaming', 'vegetarianism'.

The tweet asked people "What's your choice?" based on a photo that displayed two women—one overweight, depicting non-veg and processed food items and the other lean with fruits and vegetables.

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While the fat woman depicted food items such as sausage, poultry, meat, burger, donuts, french fries, cola and alcohol, the lean woman showed fruits and green vegetables, along with the tweet from the ministry: "Good nutrition is one of the keys to a #healthy life. Choose wisely, live well".

Dairy products like eggs, that are also often referred to as nature’s multivitamin is a relatively inexpensive source of high quality protein, amino acids essential for your body, fatty acids, vitamins and minerals, cheese is calcium, protein as well as several other nutrients.?

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Meat on the other hand has been known for the high amount of protein content and the full range of amino acids that your body cannot produce. Several vegetarian foods, with the exception of foods like soy and quinoa, are incomplete sources of amino acids. Meat is also high in iron an B12 helping your body resist fatigue.

The Twitterati was quick to pounce of them calling it an act for promoting body shaming and for also showing ignorance on the basis of factually inaccuracy:??