Kathmandu, June 24 -- In a video posted two years ago on a Facebook page called Youth for Nutrition, Arbun Khatun, mother of an eight-month-old child, is shown wearing a colourful Nutribeads bracelet. The bracelet informs young mothers like Khatun how to provide nutritionally balanced diets to infants, beginning from birth through the second year of their lives. Each bracelet has five cylindrical beads marked with the numbers 0, 6, 9, 12, and 24, signifying months, and there are five other coloured beads-white, brown, yellow, green and blue with white symbolising milk, brown carbohydrates, yellow proteins, green vitamins, and blue proteins, vitamins and fat.

In the video, Khatun explains that the lone white bead between the beads marked ...