Grain largesse from Centre
The Union health and family welfare ministry will soon launch a National Nutrition Mission geared towards providing food to pregnant women and adolescent girls below the poverty line, Dr CP Thakur
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Care to care
Care-India, non-governmental organisation, under its integrated nutrition and health project (INHP) has vowed to contribute Rs 250 crore worth of food assistance to Chhattisgarh, in order to enable a
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Plan to overcome micro nutrient deficiency
A study conducted by the Bangalore based National Institute of Animal Nutrition and Physiology (NIANP) on micro nutrients status of soil, water, feed and blood of animals in teh 10 agro-climatic
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700 Bangladeshi children die everyday
Despite Bangladesh government's various steps to increase the nutrition status of the nation, the malnutrition level in the country still remains highest in the world, a recent report of the World
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Drink tea to stop cataract, says doctor
Cataract of the human eye lens accounts for over 42% of blindness around the world. Nutrition and cataract re closely linked as people with poor diets are more susceptible to diseases. Brooke Bond
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Insect bite healthy for humans
People in the North and Northeast are far ahead of the rest of the country when it comes to getting the most from their bugs, recent research reveals. "Villagers there realise the nutritional value
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Half of 150m malnourished children live in Asia
More than half of the estimated 150 million malnourished children across the world live in South Asia, visiting head of Global Nutrition Programme of the World Bank Dr Milla Machlachlan said in
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Nutrition scheme for school children
The Rajasthan Government intends to spend Rs 120 crores on a nutrition programme for school going children, this year. The Chief Minister, Ashok Gehlot, made the announcement while laying the
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Green Revolution is now 'greed revolution' : Swaminathan
A quality literacy movement was needed to ensure nutritional security, Chairman, M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, M.S. Swaminathan, said. He said the Green Revolution had gradually turned into a
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Whole grains slash diabetes risk
Men who eat whole-grain bread, brown rice an other whole grains daily have a much lower risk of diabetes than men who do not, reported nutrition experts. A trail of more than 42,000 men showed that
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'Many city children suffer from malnutrition'
A large number of children in Indian cities suffer from extreme malnutrition. Thirty eight per cent are underweight and 36 per cent are stunted because of poor nutritional intake. There are more
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'Set up research centre for safe use of GM crops'
India cannot deny itself the potential in biotechnology if it has to enhance agricultural productivity and build a sustainable national food and nutrition security system, according to Dr M.S.
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Malnutrition ails most of the Delhi's schoolchildren
The city's middle and lower income groups are under a "malnutrition threat." Nutrition experts from AIIMS examined students of municipal Schools and found almost 97.7% of them to be underweight and a
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Iodine deficiency causes mental retardation, physical disorders
A day long workshop on iodine deficiency and its remedy was held at Rotary Bhavan recently. Jointly organized by UNICEF and Public Health Nutrition Project, (Bangladesh) the workshop was presided
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Expert moots curbs on fishery exports
"Promoting fishery exports from developing countries will endanger the nutritional status of poor fish consumers because domestic supplies will decline," Dr John Kurian, Centre of Development Studies
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Bengal's sweet dreams made of rasgullas
The West Bengal government is all set to woo those with a sweet tooth to rake in some money to fill its coffers. After its decision to fund a research to improve the nutritional value of rasgullas,
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Scientists favour organic farming
Distinguished food scientists say that many pesticides have become less effective and organic farming can help farmers maintain the soil and groundwater health. Organic foods have better nutritional
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Milk is must, but ensure the child gets enough iron
Various studies have shown that over 50 per cent of children between six months to three years of age suffer from varying degrees of iron deficiency anemia also known as nutrition anemia in India.
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2,426 crore biscuit industry put under a scanner
A majority of the leading brands of glucose biscuits do not carry the quality ISI mark, conceal important information on their nutritional content while some make wrong claims on their protein level,
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Malnutrition: still a problem
Malnutrition is still a health problem in Bhutan despite the improvement in nutritional status in last two decades say health officials. Malnutrition is common among pre-school children, pregnant