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
Child Health
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Effect of intermittent preventive treatment of malaria on health and education in schoolchildren
Children living in areas of high malaria transmission rapidly acquire immunity to malaria in early childhood; by the time they reach school age, the risk of clinical attacks and death has reduced.However, many school-aged children continue to harbour asymptomatic parasitaemia, which can cause anaemia.4 Although malaria might have an adverse eff ect on cognition and education outcomes, evidence for this has so far been lacking, and the case for school-based malaria control has not been established.
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MCD to extend anaemia control project to schools
The programme will cover about 1.5 lakh children Sir Ganga Ram Hospital will collaborate in it NEW DELHI: Mayor Arti Mehra on Thursday said that after completion of the anaemia control programme in the Capital's Shahdara North and Shahdara South zones, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi has now decided to extend the programme to municipal primary schools in South Zone, Central Zone and West Zone.
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Polio drops earn kudos for police recruits
The state health department has decided to award a trophy to the police recruits of the IRB, Bhondsi, in recognition of their contribution to administering polio drops to kids during the pulse polio rounds in Gurgaon district, besides learning effective policing techniques.
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40 students taken ill after eating fruit
Barnala: At least 40 students of a government school in Roore Ke village in Barnala district were taken ill after eating fruit of jatropha (ratanjot) grown on the school premises. Sources said all the students were admitted to Barnala Civil Hospital, where they were said to be out of danger.
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SDM orders inquiry into irregularities in mid-day meal scheme
Taking a serious note of irregularities in distribution of food to anganwari children, under the mid-day meal scheme in Barara sub-division, the Sub-Divisional Magistrate, Ashwini Mengi, has ordered an inquiry into the matter, which will be conducted by the Child Development Project Officer. Sources informed that the meals were being prepared for more heads than the original strength in the anganwadi. Mengi also said that those workers found guilty would not be spared and strict action would be taken against them.
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Polio: Victim takes up eradication campaign
In an effort to propagate the message that polio drops should be administered to all babies, members of Rotary International today took Mr Gautham Lewis, a victim of polio and an ambassador of the organisation and made a door-to-door polio eradication campaign in parts of Nonadanga, Metiabruz, and Topsia today.
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Mid-day meal till Class X
Hyderabad, July 4: Students from classes I to X in state schools will get free mid-day meals from August. At present, only students from class I to VII are getting mid-day meals and the state government has decided to extend the scheme to all classes from this academic year.
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Govt admits to mid-day meal anomalies in Meghalaya
The Meghalaya government today admitted a nexus between school managing committees and distributors of foodgrain which has badly affected implementation of the Mid-day Meal Scheme (MDM). The government made the admission after a review meeting of the scheme in north-eastern states with Central Government officials here. Parliamentary Secretary Mass and Elementary Education Ampareen Lyngdoh told the media that certain managing committees and distributors were in nexus that resulted in distribution of poor quality foodgrain in schools under the scheme.
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The youngest market: Baby food peddlers undermine breastfeeding
Scientific evidence from hundreds of studies over the past 25 years confirms that breastfeeding
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Breast-feeding protects against arsenic exposure in Bangladeshi infants
Chronic arsenic exposure causes a wide range of health effects, but little is known about critical windows of exposure. Arsenic readily crosses the placenta, but the few available data on postnatal exposure to arsenic via breast milk are not conclusive. The goal of the study was to assess the arsenic exposure through breast milk in Bangladeshi infants, living in an area with high prevalence of arsenic-rich tube-well water.