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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The global eradication of malnutrition rests on India getting the right ‘pulse’ on food prices!
India features prominently in the recently released 2016 Global Nutrition Report. The report focuses on the nutrition-related progress and commitments made globally against malnutrition and identifies
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Perpetual areas of darkness
Malnutrition deaths in Maharashtra's tribal belt expose indifference of successive governments. (Editorial)
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Food systems and diets: Facing the challenges of the 21st century
<p><img alt="" src="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/media/iep/homepage/food_27sept.jpg" style="width: 340px; height: 189px; margin: 14px; float: left;" />Nearly 3 billion people across 193 countries
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MDGs to Agenda 2063/SDGs Transition Report 2016: towards an integrated and coherent approach to sustainable development in Africa
This publication is the last in a series of MDG reports. It takes stock of Africa’s performance during the 15 year development campaign and reflects on the challenges and opportunities associated with
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With under-5 mortality down, India may achieve devpt goal
4-Point Decline In Deaths Per 1,000 Live Births India is set to achieve its millennium development goal (MDG) for under-five mortality by next year. In what comes as a significant indicator of improvement
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Delhi govt. orders probe into chikungunya deaths
Four persons have succumbed to the disease at a private hospital The Delhi government has ordered a probe into the chikungunya deaths reported in the national capital in the last two days. Four persons
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Prediction equations for spirometry for children from northern India
<p>Children in Delhi have a far lower lung capacity and lung growth rate than kids of the same age in the US, according to this study by the department of pulmonary medicine at the Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute.</p>
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Malnutrition deaths over 5 months, says health minister
BHOPAL: Health minister Rustam Singh said that death of eight to 10 children due to malnutrition in Sheopur had occurred over a period of four to five months. Talking to TOI after his visit to Golipura
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It's possible to motivate teens for healthier eating by appealing to their adolescent values: study
First, our healthy eating message was framed as an exposition of manipulative food industry marketing practices that influence and deceive adolescents and others into eating larger quantities of unhealthy
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Why so many food product imports get rejected
In the aftermath of the Welspun controversy, Business Standard gets deeper into the issue of global scrutiny facing Indian businesses across key sectors, in a three-part series. Today, we look at the