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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Toxic toys
Phthalates are chemicals used in toys to soften plastic. Exposure to them can lead to a wide range of health disorders. They are especially dangerous for children under three years, who tend to put these toys in their mouth. CSE lab tests found phthalates in all samples of toys tested -- over 45 per cent exceeded the internationally accepted safe limit.
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The trouble with toys
The latest CSE study found high levels of phthalates, a chemical used to soften plastic, in all samples of children
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Indian spices, sindoor contain lead, claims Harvard study
Young children who regularly ingest Indian spices and ceremonial powders like vermilion, or sindoor, may be exposed to lead, a dangerous neurotoxin, an American study has claimed.
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Another milk scam rocks China, 96 held
Beijing: Executions are not enough deterrent for Chinese culprits bent on raking in money in illegal ways, the police has indicated. The Chinese police found the 2008 scandal being repeated in milk dairies and arrested 96 people for mixing the toxic additive melamine with milk. A similar case of contamination had left six children dead and 300,000 sick in 2008.
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Victims of vaccination
<p>Vaccine trials in a Madhya Pradesh government hospital are making children sick.<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Down To Earth </span>finds out that harmful chemicals in high amounts is the culprit.</p>
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Healthcare in Malwa in shambles
Punjab's Malwa region, south of the Sutlej river, grabbed national attention a couple of years ago when its steeply rising cancer graph came to light. Studies had revealed the link between heavy
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Children and passive smoking
A pregnant woman exposed to cigarette smoke can pass on the harmful smoke constituents to the foetus
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Size does matter
Children s toilets are a breed apart from the everyday adult toilet
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Pudgy babies have the edge
Recent studies indicate that the greater the weight of babies at birth, the less prone they are to heart disease during their riotous adult years
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Venting the spleen
A new drug will reduce the agony and the costs of treating thalassaemia, a hereditary blood disorder