First food: business of taste
Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it
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Through a wrapper darkly ... good news for chocoholics
First, the sweet revelation. Chocolate may seriously improve your health. Now the bitter aftertaste: only dark chocolate will do the trick. It is not the first time such claims have been made.
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Contaminated feed caused BSE outbreak
The outbreak of mad cow disease in Japan was probably caused by contamination during the feed production process, a farm ministry panel investigating the issue said. The panel will finalize its
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Last-minute deal on cheap drugs
An eleventh hour deal to provide cut-price drugs for the world's poorest people was being finalised in Geneva last night in an effort to save next month's trade summit in Cancun, Mexico, from
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Stopping HIV drugs harmful
Taking long breaks from AIDS drugs gives HIV an unwanted boost in people who need therapy most, those with drug-resistant infections who have run out of all available options for treatment, says a
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Health ministry to ban smoking in its offices
The Japan health ministry will ban smoking in its offices beginning next spring, making it the first government agency to have smoke-free work spaces, an official said. The Health, Labor and Welfare
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Health ministry seeking 20 trillion yen
The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry (Japan) unveiled its fiscal 2004 budget request Wednesday, seeking 20.2 trillion yen to cover child-rearing, employment and job-training programs. Of the total,
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Edible oils too have harmful contaminants
Edible oils available in the twin cities of Andhra Pradesh are contaminated with various harmful agents including cottonseed and argemone, according to a Director General of Health Services sponsored
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Canada's cheap drugs not answer, FDA warns
Cities and states should not encourage people to purchase drugs from other countries, nor should they look to import drugs from places like Canada to relieve their own strapped budgets, the Food and
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Pharma gives Rs 12.96m aid for health care
The National Commission for Human Development (NCHD) and Glaxo Smithkline Global Community signed an MoU regrading the provision of a grant of 1,44,000 pound sterling for the expansion of primary
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The silent disaster
During the mid-nineties, arsenic contamination of groundwater emerging as a threat and in an international study that was released last September, officials said 60 million people, nearly half of