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
Health
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- Excess consumption of betel leaf harmful, says report
Scientists, chewing on the vices and virtues of betel leaves (Paan), have reported mixed results: chewing pan in low intake is good for health, but as an incessant habit it can be harmful. "Excess
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Baby fat or fat baby?
The earlier children close their baby fat and reach the leanest point of their growiing-up years, the more likely they will become obese, suggests a study. The finding held true regardless of whether
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Arsenic's new role
Chinese and American scientists have teamed up to fight cancer by using "white arsenic", a traditional Chinese poison that provokes maturity and death of differentiated cancer
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- China population to grow till 2050
China's population, already the world's largest for a single country, will keep growing until hitting 1.6 billion people in about 2050, Chinese state media reported on
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- Diabetes in children on the increase
Whan a pair of 11-year old twins were diagnosed with diabetes, the doctor treating them prescribed daily insulin injections. The parents were shattered. Their's was not a lone case. Increasingly,
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- Typhoid epidemic may break out in Ghaziabad
With the number of typhoid and para-typhoid cases rising in Ghaziabad, experts have not ruled out the possibility of the disease spreading to Delhi. This was stated by Dr S.K. Agarwal of the medicine
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- Ceramic mugs poisonous
Study: Ceramic tea mugs may be attractive but are unsafe for sipping beverage as they are "potential sources of poisoning," according to a study conducted by a team of scientists in
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- More diseases
Rising global temperature could bring more than floods and severe weather. They may allow for the wider spread of tropical illness like dengue fever, scientists warned. Researchers at the John
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- US to spend $ 50 million on health issue
Seeking to stop the growing threat of infectious diseases before they enter the Unites States , the US government is about to spend $50 million helping developing nations from El Salvador to India
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- Prohibition to end in Haryana
Haryana has decided to bid farewell to prohibition in the state. A formal seal will be put on this decision when the legislators of the Haryana Vikas Party and the BJP meet in Chandigarh to discuss