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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Starving children
about 80,000 children in north Korea are in immediate danger of dying from hunger and disease and another 80,000 are suffering from malnutrition. Carol Bellamy, executive director of unicef
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Baby fat: lost innocence
The discovery that smaller babies tend to deposit more fat around their midriffs as they grow older may help explain the controversial link between low birth weight and heart disease at later stage
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Panacea?
Vitamin E gives protection against heart disease and slows the ageing process, among other benefits
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Food for thought
The investment community is encouraged by a steady increase in the consumption of organic and natural food products in the US and western Europe. Although they have to wait for a few years, the
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"We are close to crisis point"
Agriculture and its subsequent effect on the environment, rapidly depleting natural resources like arable land and water, the slackening of the green revolution and the loomingprospect offeeding India's growing population have been the subject of in
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Baby fat is out
Researchers have concluded that high fat diets for infants might have an adverse efteq on their later lives
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Oily hopes
Red palm oil could be a potent source of beta carotenes which help in combating vitamin A deficiency
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Affairs of the heart
Not relying purely on preventive measures is being considered a better strategy for heart patients
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Oil boom
Tinytech, a mechanised oil expeller imported from India, is doing wonders for the villagers of Gokwe in the Midlands province of Zimbabwe. A smallscale oil milling business in Gokwe has
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Gastronomical preferences
A diet low in starch could be one of the reasons for diabetes in women