Ministry probes contaminated bottled drinking water
The Healthcare and Nutrition Ministry is investigating public complaints regarding contaminated bottled drinking water, Public Health Services Deputy Director General Dr. Palitha Maheepala said.
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Your diet may soon cure disease
Eating nutritional foods could soon help people avoid obesity, bowel cancer and cardiovascular disease if scientists are to be believed. According to the New Zealand conducted by Crop and Food
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Conditional cash transfer programs - A magic bullet for reducing poverty?
<p>In 1997, the Government of Mexico introduced a conditional cash transfer (CCT) program called Programa de Education, Salud, Y Alimentacion (Progresa), providing assistance to about 300, 000 extremely poor households. The essential premise of a CCT program is a cash transfer to households, conditioned on their participation in health, nutrition, and education services. </p>
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National campaign to fight dengue fever
The Sri Lankan Health Minister said public support is fully needed to fight this menace. A national campaign against dengue fever was launched. Minister of Health, Security, and Nutrition Nimal
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Building resilience to climate change for farming
BHOPAL: A consultation was held for reviewing the progress of European Union-supported Strengthening Adaptive Farming in Bangladesh, India and Nepal (SAFBIN) programme at Sagar on Wednesday. This program is being implemented in three districts of each of these countries. The chief objective of the programme is building climate change resilience of small holder farming systems and helping small holder farmers achieve food and nutrition security by making small farming practices more sustainable and profitable.
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Swaminathan for multi-pronged strategy to tackle hunger
CHENNAI: The worrisome trends in global hunger, exacerbated by high food prices, must be tackled with a multi-pronged strategy to increase small farm productivity and profitability, raise non-farm incomes and strengthen nutrition safety nets, M.S.Swaminathan, chairman of the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, said.
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Biochemistry, microbiology in Plus-Two from this year
The Education department will introduce in the coming academic year five new subjects - biochemistry, microbiology, nutrition and dietetics, nursing and English for Communication - at the higher
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Sri Lanka government to launch massive inspection on food safety
Sri Lanka Ministry of Health and Nutrition is to launch an island wide program to inspect all hotels and food sales centers for hygiene and safety during the forthcoming 'food safety week'. The program inspecting the food safety will be launched on October 17 and will be continued for a week.
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Edible advice
<p>Diet-related illnesses are some of the biggest killers today. Can we tailor our food intake to prevent these diseases? Large international projects are underway to find out.</p>
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Global food security index 2015: an annual measure of the state of global food security
The 2015 Global Food Security Index provides a worldwide perspective on which countries are the most and least vulnerable to food insecurity. During the past year, food security has improved in almost
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HEALTH OF THE NATION
With severe malnutrition threatening 68 per cent of all its children under 5 years, Bangladesh has been provided with a World Bank (WB) credit of US $59.8 million to improve nutrition. The fund will
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Infants in Chinese city starve on protein-short formula
They and hundreds of parents here in central China unwittingly bought bad formula, in which nutritional supplements had been replaced with starch or sugar. Nearly 200 other babies, including at least
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Genetic gamble: safe food - the end of choice?
Food is one of the most important determinants of health, which is why the food must be nutritive and safe, the processes involving cultivation, storage conducted with safety as a priority and where equitable distribution is ensured. This report makes an effort to put forth the important health and safety concerns arising from genetic engineering in agriculture.
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Poverty alleviation project pays off in Kolli Hills
“The project to ‘Alleviate Poverty and Malnutrition in Agro Biodiversity Hot Spots’ in Kolli Hills that is jointly implemented by the University of Alberta (UA), Canada, and M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation
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The State of School Feeding Worldwide 2013
<p>This new global report published by the World Food project analyses school feeding programmes in 169 countries and says that India has the largest school feeding programme in the world, catering to over 114 million children, but stands 12th among 35 lower-middle-income countries covering 79 per cent of its total number of school-going children.</p>
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Steps to bring down infant, maternal mortality rate
Rajahmundry, Dec. 6: The newly formed community health and nutrition centres will play a vital role to bring down infant and maternal mortality rates and also total fertility rate as per the norms set by the National Rural Health Mission in East Godavari district.
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Air pollution 5th largest killer in India: Study
NEW DELHI: Air pollution is the fifth largest killer in India taking 6.2 lakh lives per year and Delhi is among one of the five most critically polluted regions in the country, a study by a US-based health institute has claimed. The other four most critically polluted regions in the country are Ghaziabad, Gwalior, West Singbhum district in Jharkhand and Raipur, according to the study.
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The sustainability challenges of our meat and dairy diets
Continuing high consumption of livestock products in nearly all developed countries, and increasing demand for livestock-based foods in large transition economies, are creating serious problems of prolonged
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Lingra stir fry
Heat a little bit of mustard oil, add some uncrushed jakhiya (Cleome viscosa) or cumin seeds, whole red chillies and salt to taste. Add pieces of fronds and stir it till it matches your idea of being
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IFAD’s $65m projects for KPK, Punjab
The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) started this month a new three-year country programme for Pakistan under which it will provide soft loans worth $65 million for two projects focusing