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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Unchecked
Industry flouts weak regulations at will
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BHOPAL: the bad dream continues
Bhopal is a metaphor for disaster, industrial and human. It has been the object of much speculation and typically endless litigation. A case study in regulatory law, it could serve as wonderful proof in an argument to uphold the precautionary principle. R
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Food for taught
Should Karnataka expand the midday meal scheme without fine tuning it?
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gm on the platter: The US government has recently issued a notice to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for failing to comply with safety laws when it allowed offsprings of animals used
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For kids' sake
EPA sued for soft pedalling on anti pesticide safeguards
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Healthy dining: Organic restaurant
Apna Dhaba in Vadodara promises sumptuous food, and all of it is homegrown and organic
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Order without science
On June 28, 1993, the Supreme Court of the us passed a verdict that tilted the scales of justice in favour of polluters by undermining the role of science in the country s judicial arena. This fact was made public during a recent press conference of the T
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A sure shot
Hepatitis B vaccine should not be administered to all children
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Increased migration levels of bisphenol A from polycarbonate baby bottles after dishwashing, boiling and brushing
Baby bottles are often made of polycarbonate plastic. Impurities remaining in the bottle from the monomer bisphenol A can migrate from the plastic bottles into baby food, thereby causing a health concern.
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toddlers in trouble: A research institute has found high levels of mercury in 60 per cent of newborns at hospitals in Itaituba city, in the Brazilian Amazon. Out of the 1,666 babies born during 2002