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
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Early cancer detection
M.B Sahasrabundhe, a former director of the Cancer Research Institute, Mumbai has developed a blood test for detecting all types of cancer irrespective of where it is located, long before any of the
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Live from Chennai
For the first time ever, two complex surgical procedures done in Chennai are presented live to a global audience. On May 22, over 2,000 interventional cardiology professionals from all over the world
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Study links healthy babies to leafy vegetables
Emerging evidence from studies in Maharashtra indicates that women who have consumed adequate quantities of micronutrients in such foods as leafy vegetables, fruits and milk before they got pregnant
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Warning bells ring as child ratio dips in Karnataka
The warning bells have rung for Karnataka. The State is following the footsteps of Punjab, Haryana and Maharashtra in dipping child sex ratios, as the 2001 Census shows. This means more and more
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Stale meals spoil midday festivity in Davanagere school
Around 2,000 children in Davanagere in Karnataka were given stale food on the inauguration day of the hot meal scheme. Some students at the government primary school in Chamrajpet said the rice
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Food giant puts health initiative on the table
Kraft Foods Inc. has said it woudl rethink some product lines and introduce steps to help fight the worldwide problem with obesity. In an unusual move, Kraft, the maker of Oreo cookies, Kraft
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Toronto is dropped from SARS-infected list
The World Health Organization removed Toronto from its lits of SARS-infected areas Wednesday, saying Canada's large city had contained the virus.The decision means that Taiwan is thelast on what was
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City in tobacco country votes to ban smoking
The city of Lexington, in the heart of Kentucky's tobacco industry, has voted to ban smoking in most public buildings. The ban, set to take effect Sept. 29, is the first of its kind in the state,
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Tougher warnings set for cigarette packages
In the first revision of cigarette warning labels in 14 years, Japanese tobacco companies will be required to state more clearly on their packaging the dangers of smoking, government officials said
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3 new cases reported in outbreak of plague
Three more people in western Algeria, including a toddler, have been diagnosed with bubonic plague, adding to a dozen cases discovered in the area over the past month, the Health Ministry