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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Cul de sap
African milk bush causes cancer
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Alcohol ads: Teens targeted?
A recent study in the US reports that magazines popular with teenagers such as Rolling Stone and People tend to carry more alcohol advertisements. The study hints that the alcohol industry may be indirectly targeting underage drinkers by advertising in su
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Unsafe limits
Even permissible levels of pollutants can damage health
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Cloning constraint: The cloning of humans and other primates may not be possible with current techniques, indicates an experiment. Normally, during the natural division of healthy cells, chromosomes
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Exposure of infants to outdoor and indoor air pollution in low-income urban areas - A case study of Delhi
Indoor air pollution is potentially a very serious environmental and public health problem in India. In poor communities, with the continuing trend in biofuel combustion coupled with deteriorating housing conditions, the problem will remain for some time to come.
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Nitrates in Karnataka wells
yet another case of contamination of water has surfaced. The southwestern regional office of the Central Ground Water Board (cgwb) recently released a report of the water quality study conducted in
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Even the womb does not protect against pesticides
Air pollution is certainly an enemy of health. But there are others that may be even nastier. Chlorpyrifos a pesticide that can easily enter the human foodchain has more victims to its credit than carcinogenic air pollutants such as Polycyclic Aromati
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Junk diet
Delhi kids better lay off junk food and colas. A recent study by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (aiims) reveals startling details about school students' health. It has found 23.1 per
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Crunch metals cure diarrhoea
research carried out in Bangladesh has shown that giving zinc supplements to children suffering from diarrhoea can reduce the duration and severity of the disease. The study has been carried out by
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Perpetually ill prepared
Inept response as mystery fever grips Uttar Pradesh