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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Foetal memory
Learning starts in the womb
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Thirsty for breath?
Contaminated drinking water can lead to respiratory problems
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Loose bones
Fluoride contaminated cripples many in villages near Lahore
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Maddening effect
bovine spongiform encephalopathy ( bse ) or mad cow disease, which has continued to trouble many European nations, is affecting India as well. Diabetic children are bearing the brunt of the
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Breathing uneasy
Threat from occupational exposure to pollutants, especially to young children and pregnant women, is growing rapidly. There is no time for complacency, note scientists
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Children under threat !
Rising cases of respiratory ailments in children, due to air pollution, fail to stir the Indian government
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Friendly demand
friends of the Earth (foe) an inter national non-governmental organi sation, is demanding that uk should ban the use of chlorpyrifos, the world's most commonly used insecticide. This
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The right chord
A new safe method to detect anaemia in foetuses
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Air pollution in Calcutta elicits adverse pulmonary reaction in children
<p>Pulmonary responses of children chronically exposed to ambient air pollution in Calcutta have been investigated. A total number of 153 children from Calcutta and 116 from rural West Bengal in the age group of 6-17 yr were included in this study. Respiratory symptom complex, sputum cytology and micronucleus (MN) count of buccal epithelial cells were evaluated.
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UNITED NATIONS
A newly-formed organisation in Bangladesh, Forum for Arsenic Patients (fap), has threatened to sue the United Nations Children's Fund (unicef) for compensation on behalf of millions of