Dietary guidelines for India 2024
The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) recently revised the dietary guidelines for Indians to provide healthier diet and lifestyle recommendations, ensuring dietary and nutritional requirements
The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) recently revised the dietary guidelines for Indians to provide healthier diet and lifestyle recommendations, ensuring dietary and nutritional requirements
Bloomberg / Shanghai September 18, 2008, 5:59 IST
Asian countries including Bangladesh may have imported the tainted milk formula that has claimed the lives of 3 babies in China so far.
Patralekha Chatterjee THE UNDERFED still outnumber the overfed. But food is the new religion of aspiring India, competing with sex on the pleasure-o-meter of the urbane and the upward-mobile.
Potential new concerns about the safety of bisphenol, a widely used chemical Several States are considering restricting BPA use No strong evidence of health hazards: government experts CHICAGO: The first major study of health effects in people from a chemical used in plastic baby bottles, food cans and a host of other products links it with possible risks for heart disease and diabetes.
Saibal Dasgupta | TNN Beijing: The Chinese government finally claimed some success in tackling the scandal concerning contaminated baby foods that has resulted in the death of another infant, taking the toll to two, and caused severe sickness in at least 600 others. On Monday, it announced the arrest of two persons for allegedly adding melamine, an industrial chemical, to the milk powder.
Ananth Krishnan SHANGHAI: China
Mumbai, September 15 Last year, after malnourishment surfaced in adivasi padas in Aarey Colony, ICDS along with tribal department started anganwadis and mini anganwadis It took a week and one death of a six-month-old for the Integrated Child Development Service (ICDS) of Woman and Child Development Department to wake up to the fact that there could be malnourished children in the tribal belt of Kandivali's national park area. ICDS will soon survey 13 to 14 padas in that area to start mini anganwadis.
Chinese officials knew for weeks about sales of chemical-tainted milk powder that has killed two infants and sickened 1,253, but did not act until the New Zealand government pressed Beijing, New Zealand's prime minister said yesterday.
BY SUDHIR K SINGH BHOPAL
CHILDREN STUNTED IN SRI LANKA: The infant mortality rate (IMR) of Sri Lanka, as per the latest demographic and health survey 2006-2007, is 15 per 1,000 live births. The IMR was 12 per 1,000 live births in 2005. In the same year, IMR in India was 56. The survey also shows that 22 per cent of children are underweight, 18 per cent are stunted and 15 per cent show signs of wasting. Authorities