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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French are getting fatter: Survey
The French are gaining weight every year and are approaching American Standards to obesity, French media has reported. The reports were based on a survey carried out by the National Institute for
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Gastroenteritis attacks Nagaon prisoners
The condition of the prisoners of Nagaon Central Jail and special jails, in Assam, suffering from gastroenteritis has improved a lot. According to official sources, out of 41 prisoners in Nagaon
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Dhekiajuli hit by jaundice, malaria; 70 die
Serious resentment prevails among the people of Dhekiajuli and its adjoining areas in Assam as hundreds of people have been attacked by malaria and jaundice. According to reports, the primary health
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Malaria affects hundreds in Narayanpur
It is learnt that hundreds of persons are affected by malaria and malarial-type fever in different parts of Narayanpur district. More than 200 persons have been affected, according to a District
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Battling hunger and disease
Despite social advances two million children under the age of five are chronically malnourished in Mexico. In places such as Tehuipango, in Veracruz state, breakfast, lunch and dinner sometimes
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Cholera alert over shanties on water pipe
The civic water supply department has sounded the alert and CPM councillor Snehanshu Roy has warned municipal commissioner Debasish Som that a massive outbreak of cholera is imminent in the Tangra,
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Water valued gift in parched Kolar
While most people carry sweets and fruit when they go visiting relatives and friends, in parched Bagepalli and Gudibande taluks of Kolar district cans of drinking water make the most valued "gifts'.
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Drug registration worries China
The Chinese government on behalf of its pharmaceutical industry is expected to take up the issue of registration of drugs exported by them to India with Mr Vajpayee. A number of shipments are held up
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Traffic cops at high health risk
A recent study conducted by eminent pulmonologists, has come out with hard facts about the hazards that these cops face as a result of patrolling some of the most polluted areas of the Hyderabad
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Blair, Chirac urge EU cash for Aids fund
Tony Blair and Jacques Chirac have urged the European Union this week to match the US contribution to a fund to tackle Aids and other deadly diseases. In a letter to Costas Simitis, Greek prime