Indian bags prize for better nutrition
An Indian scientist, Modadugu Vijay Gupta, has been named winner of the World Food Prize worth $250,000 for his work to enhance nutrition for over one million people, mostly very poor women, through
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Nourish South Asia: grow a better future for regional food justice
Forty percent of the world’s hungry people lived in South Asia even before the food price crisis of 2008. Hunger stalks the entire region, from the mountain slopes of Nepal to the arid plains of southern
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Indian scientist bags World Food Prize worth $250,000
Indian scientist, Dr Modadugu Vijay Gupta, has been named winner of the $250,000 World Food Prize for his work to enhance nutrition for over one million people, mostly very poor women, through the
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What America can teach us about mid-day meals
JAYA JUMRANI
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Nepal demographic and health survey 2011: preliminary report
The 2011 Nepal Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS) is the fourth nationally representative comprehensive survey conducted as part of the worldwide Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) project in the country.
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Malnutrition is rampant among rural TB patients
New Delhi: Severe undernutrition when diagnosed could mean at least two times higher odds of death in TB patients despite treatment, concluded a recent study which found shocking levels of malnutrition
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The nutty affair
A tv advert for Nutella has been withdrawn in the uk after the country's advertising watchdog ruled that it exaggerated the hazelnut spread's nutritional value. The commercial showed several
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Nutrition project for adolescent girls to continue
Special Correspondent Pilot project in 51 districts Release of Rs.162.77 crore to States, Union Territories approved Foodgrains at BPL rates for beneficiaries NEW DELHI: The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) on Friday approved continuation of the "Nutrition Programme for Adolescent Girls' in 2008-09 in 51 districts on a pilot project basis with minor changes in guidelines. The CCEA approved release of the Central assistance (on a 100 per cent grant basis) of the allocation of Rs.162.77 crore for 2008-09 to States and Union Territories.
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Red alert 90% of women, children are anaemic
According to date available with the Nutrition Foundation of India, nearly 90% of adolescent girls women and children in the country suffer from anaemia. The data has been obtained from a District
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DDA confiscates 48 unregistered medicines
Department of Drug Administration (DDA) (Nepal) has confiscated 48 different brands of Indian medicines and other drugs - labeled as dietary or nutritional supplements, which were circulated in the
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How much salt, sugar? New diet rules coming
By Syed Akbar Hyderabad, July 29: How much salt, sugar, chilli, turmeric, ginger-garlic paste or garam masala is good for an average Indian if India is to be a healthy nation? The Centre has taken up a massive exercise to revise dietary guidelines for Indians after a 10-year gap. People can decide what type and what quantity of food is desirable. Suggestions/comments have been invited, based on which a panel of health and nutrition experts will finalise the new guidelines.
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Monsanto readies health food range
Monsanto, the $5.5-billion US agro-chemical giant, is set to release a slew of second-generation products that will impact consumers in terms of health and nutrition and help them lead a healthier
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Rogue protein has Delhi doctors worried for children
This is no new age food scare. Rogue protein CRP (C-Reactive Protein) has doctors in the Capital busy right now revising the currently admissible "safe' nutritional norm for saturated fat allowed for
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India’s ranking now in hunger index is 63
But level of hunger remains at ‘alarming levels’, says report India has improved its ranking from 65 to 63 in the Global Hunger Index, making a marginal improvement since 2012, but continues to languish far behind other emerging economies. The score for the country improved slightly from 22.9 in 2012 to 21.3 this year. As has been the trend, within SAARC countries too, India continued to trail behind Pakistan and Bangladesh on the index.
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Govt stops UNICEF from giving French protein paste to children
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Somalia famine spreads
Nairobi: Famine spread to a sixth southern Somalia region and will likely extend further in the coming four months, the United Nations said today. “Acute malnutrition and the rate of crude mortality
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Need for food security: Vandana Shiva
Noted environment activist Vandana Shiva on Monday said India had beaten Africa in hunger as half of the country
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Monkey jack: underutilized edible medicinal plant, nutritional attributes and traditional foods of Western Ghats, Karnataka, India
Monkey jack (Artocarpus gomenzianus Wall.ex Trecul) an underutilized edible and medicinal plant of Central Western Ghats has been studied for their distribution, harvesting, morphology and juice yield,
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Social Progress Index 2017
<p>India has been ranked 93rd among 128 countries in the world in social progress. The Social Progress Index-2017 classifies India one of the ‘Lower Middle Social Progress’ countries with a score of 58.39. India scores very poorly on environmental quality reveals the global index.</p>
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No. of malnourished drops by 6.5%
India, the world’s second biggest wheat and rice grower, saw the number of people who suffered from chronic hunger drop by 6.5% to 21.38 crore during 2011-13, according to a joint report by UN food agencies.