First food: business of taste
Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it
Nutrition
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Strategic body needed to beat food crises
The system that oversees global agriculture and food security needs an overhaul, says Joachim von Braun.
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F as in fat: how obesity threatens Americas future
<p>In 2001, then-Surgeon General David Satcher issued a landmark statement that obesity had reached epidemic proportions in America. The country began to react, but slowly.
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Satisfying hidden hunger: addressing micronutrient deficiencies in Central Asia
This report details how ADB's regional food fortification initiative helped participating countries in Central Asia move toward universal salt iodization and establish sustainable wheat flour fortification, and how the intitiative successfully addressed three unknown development issues in mainly newly emerging market economies: the use of public-private partnerships; collaboration between the gove
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Bangladesh economic growth assessment
<p>This assessment is one of several undertaken by USAID/ Bangladesh that will provide an input into the design of new economic growth activities to be implemented under the new strategy. The mission has also contracted assessments covering such themes as gender, the Global Development Alliance, energy, agricultural productivity, nutrition, and food security.
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Child undernutrition in India
<p class="bodytext" style="margin: auto 0in; line-height: 15.6pt"><span style="font-family: Arial"><font size="3"><font color="#000000">In this paper, the authors have constructed a composite indicator of anthropometric failure (CIAF) that refines the Waterlow-3 tier classification, using a recent nation-wide household survey.
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Eat less, live longer?
People trying to delay ageing by cutting calories may have a surprise in store.
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Effective interventional approach to control anaemia in pregnant women
Anaemia in pregnancy and low birth weight babies, a serious public health problem, troubles India and several other nations. This article reports the results of a approach to address the issue. Women up to 20 week pregnancy with haemoglobin (Hb) 9.0 g/dl or less, those with urinary fluoride beyond 1.0 mg/l and not suffering from any other ailments, were selected.
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Zinc biofortification of food grains in relation to food security and alleviation of zinc malnutrition
<p>Exemplary agricultural research supported by good government policies has ensured food security in India. It is the right time to focus on micronutrient malnutrition in the country. Recently, Zn deficiency in diet especially of young children below 5 years of age has received global attention.</p> <p><strong><a href="http://www.currentscience.ac.in/Downloads/article_id_098_10_1300_1304_0.pdf" target="_blank">Original Source</a></strong></p>
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Govt must first define food security
AMIT AGNIHOTR NEW DELH The draft food May 23: The draft food security bill has come in for sharp criticism from experts who have cautioned the government against rushing in with the law guaranteeing food grains to the poor.