Kathmandu, Nov. 7 -- A prominent advisor to the Baliyo Nepal project, a national campaign inaugurated by President Bidya Devi Bhandari and supported by the Chaudhary Foundation in association with the Gates Foundation, has resigned on grounds that the campaign promotes junk food.

Dr Aruna Uprety, one of Nepal's foremost nutritionists, resigned from Baliyo Nepal, saying that she had made a mistake in becoming part of the project without understanding its intentions.

"I am ashamed to have been part of the vested interest of a company that promotes junk food," Uprety told the Post over the phone from Makwanpur. "This has seriously harmed my years-long initiatives against the promotion of junk food and raises questions about my credibility....