Root cures
A dedicated group of botanists, ayurvedic practitioners and pharmacologists are showing rural Keralites that all the medicines they need, grow in their own backyards
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Give native knowledge its due place
Ethnobotanist and director-general of Amity Foundation's Institute of Biotechnology at Thiruvananthapuram, Palpu Pushpangadan, tells P R J Pradeep that India can learn a lot from China about making
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Frontier guards
Invaded and ravaged by germs and pathogens every moment of its existence, the human body has developed its own lines of defence. Among the lesser known barriers are the linings of the gut
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Elixir or poison?
NEXT time when you are going to drink a glass of milk, think twice. It might be a concoction of refined oil, caustic soda, urea and detergent. Scientists of the *National Dairy Research Institute
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Competing with wheat
Human made triticale is nutritionally superior to wheat and could become a major foodcrop in the lower Himalayan region
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Moss largesse
Spirulina, a species of microscopic blue green algae commonly found in fresh water ponds, is fast emerging as a source of multicrore business opportunities in India. Ballarpur Industries
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Cold storage
An age old principle comes in handy to provide the rural poor with low cost refrigerators
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SOMALIA
There is hope yet for the malnourisheQ adults in Somalia, ~o had previ- ously been written off as doomed to die by the international aid agencies, who focussed all their atten- tion on the children.
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INDIA
• The Shiv Sena-BJP bigwigs in Bombay have reintroduced the bill banning the slaughter of cows and calves. The new, "improved" bill calls for an imprisonment increased from 2 years to 5 years
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Crunch metals cure diarrhoea
research carried out in Bangladesh has shown that giving zinc supplements to children suffering from diarrhoea can reduce the duration and severity of the disease. The study has been carried out by
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Ta, rabies
Unique vaccine ready for trials
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Salt in UNICEF's cake of success
There is bad news for the UNICEF's universal salt iodisation programme. Field investigations by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) contradicts the UN body's contention that by next
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ALL IN A NAME
Seed varieties are named according to their inherent properties Traditional seed varieties are named either after their appearance or properties. One need not be a specialist to understand the characteristics of a particular seed variety. Some of the desc
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Protein rich algae fatten kids
A noon meal food supplement consisting of a blue green algae was provided to schoolchildren on a trial basis in Pudukottai district, with dramatic results in terms of weight gain and resistance to ailments.
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The dumber number game
I met an eminent economist last week. He quoted another eminent economist cum columnist, and asked me if it was true that apples had higher pesticide residues than Coke or Pepsi. Before I could
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A question of labelling
The European Commission decides on the labelling of genetically modified food
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Intellectual development
CHILDHOOD malnutrition may not have an influence on adult intelligence, states a study by the National Institute of Nutrition (NIN) in Hyderabad. On the other hand, "the socioeconomic status of the
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A pinch of salt
the Union ministry of human resource development has directed all state governments to use only iodised salt in food given free of cost under their nutrition-related programmes. "The decision
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Agony in disguise
ALL beer guzzlers bewarel This popular drink may after all be a repository of carcinogenic chemicals like nitroso- dimethylamine, according to scientists of the Hyderabad-based
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Future Food: India - 'Fat or Skinny?'
In India Tulika Verma is on a mission to ban junk food from Delhi’s schools – where over one in six schoolchildren are overweight. Western-style diets and processed food are becoming ever more popular