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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Clarion call against childhood obesity
Solution lies in concerted effortsby government and society, says expert Obesity is a major contributor to lifestyle diseases and increasing rate of childhood obesity has become a cause of concern in
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Health dept under fire for covering up dengue cases
Chennai: Septic shock, viral haemorrhagic fever, encephalopathy - medical jargon has often served as a smokescreen for civic and health officials who want to hide dengue deaths. This season is no different.
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'15% of country's population undernourished'
AURANGABAD: Highlighting the grim picture of farmers' suicide placed by the NCRB data - stating that so far about 3,08,826 farmers committed suicide from 1995-2014 - representatives of FIAN India, Land
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The influence of brand equity characters on children's food preferences and choices
<p>The objective of the study was to assess the influence of brand equity characters displayed on food packaging on children’s food preferences and choices, 2 studies were conducted. Brand equity
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The social and economic impact of child undernutrition on Lesotho Vision 2020
Lesotho is losing 1.9 billion Maloti (US$200 million) a year to the effects of child undernutrition, according to a new, country-specific Cost of Hunger in Africa (COHA) study released. This amounts to
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Achieving a nutrition revolution for Africa: the road to healthier diets and optimal nutrition
Focusing the 2015 Annual Trends and Outlook Report (ATOR) on nutrition will contribute to a broader understanding of the critical role of nutrition in achieving international, continental, and national
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The cost of air pollution in Africa
The human and economic costs of air pollution in Africa are growing fast, according to a new OECD Development Centre study on the Cost of Air Pollution in Africa. Already, they are surpassing the costs
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Government lie on Japanese Encephalitis exposed
Even as the State Government blamed the Centre for ‘holding back’ mass vaccination programme which has led to a surge in Japanese Encephalitis (JE) deaths in Malkangiri, the Collector attributes it to
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Epidemiologic characteristics of children with blood lead levels ≥45 μg/dL
<p>The objective of the study was to identify risk factors and describe outcomes for children newly identified with blood lead levels (BLLs) ≥45 µg/dL in New York City (NYC) during 2004-2010
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From the first hour of life: making the case for improved infant and young child feeding everywhere
A new report from UNICEF, From the First Hour of Life: Making the case for improved infant and young child feeding everywhere, provides a global status update on infant and young child feeding practices