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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Undermining indigenous pulses
Nutritionist <font class="UCASE">Shantilal Kothari</font>, whose efforts were instrumental in revocation of the ban on lathyrus speaks to <font class="UCASE">Aparna Pallavi</font> <br> <br> <b>How did you get interested in lathyrus?</b><br>
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Cooked research
In September 2003, the Sanjay Deotale Committee conducted extensive research in rural hospitals in the high lathyrus consumption districts of Bhandara, Gondia, Chandrapur and Gadchiroli, and found that they had not received any lathyrus patient in the last five years. Doctors from National Institute of Nutrition who were part of the committee did not join the research team.
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Women SHGs run mid-day meal schemes in Orissa schools
School teachers in many parts of the country find the government
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Govt to hike spend in child-nutrition plan
Himanshi Dhawan | TNN With child malnutrition levels stagnant at 46% for the past 10 years, the government has been forced to restructure its programme for nutritional intervention for children between 0-6 years. If approved by the Union cabinet, the government will spend an average Rs 4.21 per beneficiary per day, up from Rs 2 per day. The restructured Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) will be implemented in mission mode under a National ICDS Mission Directorate and increase financial powers at the grassroots level.
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An empirical study of the mid-day meal programme in Khurda, Orissa
The mid-day meal programme was initiated as a means of achieving universal primary education of satisfactory quality for all schoolchildren below the age of 14 by increasing enrolment, improving attendance and retention, and simultaneously improving nutritional status. This paper attempts to investigate some of these aspects based on primary data collected from Khurda district of Orissa. Data was collected from schools as well as from a sample of households of schoolchildren.
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Get on a diet coarse
Is rising food price making you shrink your dinner spread? Don't. Why not try your hand at some millet recipes? That may not only bring down your food budget, but also enhance the nutritional value
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Full meal or package deal?
With lobbying going on to replace cooked meals in the mid-day meal programme with processed foods like biscuits, this article reports on a consultation earlier this year that saw academicians, medical professionals, and nutrition and public health experts discuss the impact of providing dry rations versus cooked foods.
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New fertiliser pricing gets off the ground
Farmers To Gain As Complex Fertilisers Get Cheaper, More Accessible THE government on Thursday cleared a new fertiliser pricing policy that will make some varieties cheaper and help farmers, but the industry said it was only a tentative first step toward price decontrol. "The prices of complex fertilisers will come down by Rs 1,416 per tonne or Rs 70 per bag There will, however, be no change in prices of urea, MOP, DAP and SSP during 2008-09,' finance minister P Chidambaram told reporters after a meeting of the Cabinet committee on economic affairs (CCEA).
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June - Nutrition Month
The Healthcare and Nutrition Ministry has declared June as the 'Nutrition Month' under the direction of Healthcare and Nutrition Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva. This is aimed at upgrading the nutrition level of infants, children and mothers, a Healthcare and Nutrition Ministry spokesman said. He said Sri Lanka's infant and maternal mortality rate is very low when comparing with the other countries of the world but the people's interest in nutrition is very unsatisfactory. Due to this situation, people do not follow proper methods to preserve nutrition when preparing food.
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A functional probiotic beverage: Kanji
Carrot is one of the most popular and important vegetable cultivated and consumed throughout the world. It has been reported to have diuretic, nitrogen balancing properties and effective in the elimination of uric acid. In Northern India carrots, especially a variety that is deep purple in colour is fermented to make a traditional ready to serve drink known as Kanji.