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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Rajasthan malnutrition scheme to be based on micro-planning
Action plan for Phase 2 being formulated for 17,000 kids The second phase of the Community-based Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) programme will be implemented in Rajasthan on micro-planning
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Combined prenatal pesticide exposure and folic acid intake in relation to Autism Spectrum Disorder
<p>Maternal folic acid (FA) protects against developmental toxicity from certain environmental chemicals. The researchers examined combined exposures to maternal FA and pesticides in relation to autism
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U.N. seeks to protect young children from work on farms in Lebanon
With child labour soaring in Lebanon following the outbreak of war in Syria, the United Nations published on Wednesday the first guide in Arabic to help farmers and officials seeking to protect them from
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'They should be much bigger': the heavy toll of malnutrition in Madagascar
The children of Ambohijafy, a rural village among the green valleys and sloping hills of Madagascar’s fertile central highlands, are some of the poorest in the world, but they dream of rising above their
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Pipe(d) dreams: water supply, sanitation, and hygiene progress and remaining challenges in Ecuador
The document summarizes an extensive body of research conducted to assess the extent and quality of water supply, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services geographically and over the income distribution
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Refugee council raises the alarm over children malnutrition in northeast, others
Egeland stressed that of this number, 450,000 were in Nigeria, 247,500 in Niger, 63,000 in Cameroon and 22,000 in Chad.He explained that 57 per cent of the funds needed to provide basic humanitarian needs
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Deadly malnutrition soars among children in Lake Chad amid Boko Haram resurgence
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The number of children suffering from life-threatening malnutrition across the Lake Chad Basin - about 800,000 - has soared since last year, and could spiral further
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Now, 49 infants die in 30 days at Farrukhabad hosp
DM Among 3 Officials Transferred Forty-nine infants died in a month at Farrukhabad's Ram Manohar Lohia government hospital, most of them due to “perinatal asphyxia“, a condition in which the
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Nourishing India: national nutrition strategy
With a benefit to cost ratio of 16:1 for 40 low and middle-income countries, there is a well recognized rationale, globally, for investing in Nutrition. The recently published NFHS-4 results reflect some
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MC to start quality audits for health and education departments
The auditor department of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to start quality auditing of the civic education and health departments to make officials of these two departments more accountable