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
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
In an effort to understand the health problems of neglected children, a discussion by various non-governmental institutes and health institute representatives at the Prayas Institute of Juvenile
In the 1990s, cases of HIV involved people who had been infected oversees. However, since 2000 the trend has changed and instances are now being reported of people getting infected inside Pakistan.
Thousands of people in Zhejiang province, south of Shanghai, went on the rampage at the weekend in protest at the Chinese government's inability to control the spread of Sars. Reports of the
A soaring number of U.S. children are overweight, but many of their mothers don't know it: about a third of those with heavy children think their kids are at a normal weight, shows a federal survey.
Wasyl Malyj, an "informatics" scientist at the University of California at Davis is working with the new Centre of Excellence for Nutritional Genomics. Nutritional genomics, is the second wave of
Research watchdogs are objecting to a study of alcohol's effects on the teenage children of alcoholics. Brown University Medical School wants to find out how drinking affects sleep by giving teens
The population of children under age 15 in Japan declined for the 22nd straight year, it was learned. The figure stood at a little more than 18 million as of April 1, down 170,000 from last year. The
The international pursuit that led to the discovery of the virus that causes SARS is turning into a competition for patent rights. Scientists in Canada who decoded the genetic make-up of hte virus
The World Health Organisation website is set to release data, to inform people across the world, how SARS can be contracted without direct contact. It may be possible to catch the SARS virus simply
Bhopal Municipal Corporation (BMC) spends crores of rupees on the purification of water to be supplied to the residents of the Bhopal city, Madhya Pradesh but to no avail. Water cleaned by the BMC by