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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Cleanly this means trouble!
Hormone rich shampoos make some girls enter puberty early
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Not kidding
Children in developing countries continue to suffer, claims UNICEF
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Mounting Evidence, Collapsing Public Health
FINE KILL The health effect of ULTRAFINE particles - smaller than 0.1 micron in diameter - on human health was never properly studied. Epidemiological studies done till now only linked the effects
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India Exposed!
It is unimaginable. Air quality in most Indian cities is at critical levels. And the culprit respirable particulates are way above danger mark in most cities monitored. Yet government and industry are only too happy to join hands to script mass obitua
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No Escape
A recent US study has conclusive evidence on the deadly nature of fine particulate matter in the air. These unseen particles, mostly emitted by the combustion of fossil fuels, are cutting our lives shorter by increasing the chances of lung cancer and
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Evils of advancement
Test tube babies face higher health risks
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Brainstorming
Brain tumours can be caused by a virus that affects many children
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SORRY SCENARIO
Official reports of Pakistan reveal that around 11.7 million children in the country are stunted and underweight. The stunting found in 40 per cent of the children (8.3 million) is because of
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Children under cloud
Pollution causes birth defects
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Cooking pollution
Nitrogen dioxide from burners dangerous for children