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• 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

  • 01/01/2029

  • Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)
  • • Health
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• Bachchan's flower pots get MCD scowl

  Big B may be the perfect hit man for Bollywood bad guys, but he has been unable to control mosquitoes from breeding in his house. The Municipal Corporation of Delhi issued notice to Bollywood

  • 12/12/2002

  • Statesman (New Delhi)
  • • Health

• 'Cancer assuming dangerously proportions'

  According to a recent World Health Organisation report, by 2020 there will be 10 million new cases of cancer every year in the world of which one third will be reported from developing

  • 12/12/2002

  • Statesman (New Delhi)
  • • Health

• 10 die of malaria in Arunachal

  At least 10 persons have died of malaria, jaundice and other water-borne diseases in Pakke Kassang area of Arunachal Pradesh in the last few months, East Kameng district Congress Committee sources

  • 07/12/2002

  • Assam Tribune (Guwahati)
  • • Health

• Why sugarcane farmers take a 'beeting'

  Sugar. It makes you fat, it rots your teeth and it's everywhere, in drinks, sweets, sauces and prepared foods. Too many spoonfuls are bad for out health, say nutritionists, but too many tons are

  • 12/12/2002

  • Statesman (New Delhi)
  • • Health

• WHO to review Singapore safety

  Specialists from the World Health Organisation are set to go to Singapore to help review laboratory safety after a medical researcher tested positive for SARS,

  • 12/12/2002

  • Statesman (New Delhi)
  • • Health

• Taiwan to WHO: SARS toll 71, not 180

  Taiwan insisted that only 71 people had died from SARS on the island and urged the World Health Organisation to change its toll of 180

  • 12/12/2002

  • Statesman (New Delhi)
  • • Health

• Mysterious fever claims three lives

  A mysterious fever has broken out in the lower hill areas of the state, claiming three lives and affecting hundreds in the Mandi, Ghumarwin, Arki, Solan and Hamirpur areas of Himachal

  • 12/12/2002

  • Tribune (New Delhi)
  • • Health

• Stringent tests being done to check spurious drugs in state'

  The business of spurious and sub-standard drugs is mind-boggling throughout the country and is being viewed seriously in Karnataka by the Drugs Control department. The Delhi High Court, which took

  • 08/12/2002

  • Deccan Herald (Bangalore)
  • • Health

• Stress laid on child nutrition

  The Integrated Child Nutrition Programme (ICNP) will be launched under the first phase in 15 districts of Uttar Pradesh jointly by the Medical Health and Family Welfare and Child Development and

  • 06/12/2002

  • Pioneer (Lucknow)
  • • Health

• Smoking kills : the butt stops here

  Figure available with the World Health Organisatin (WHO) prove that smoking is the single

  • 12/12/2002

  • • Health