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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Doctors sound alert on heart disease
Heart disease would assume epidemic proportions in Calcutta and elsewhere by 2020, unless preventive measures, like change of food habits and sedentary lifestyle are adopted at once. The warning sent
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FDA begins seizure of cadbury chocolates after finding worms
This is yet another sweet story turning sour. After Pune, Mumbai too experienced a similar incident. Worms were found in a Cadbury Dairy Milk chocolate bar, following which the state Food and Drugs
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Migrating women fight losing battle with AIDS
Driven by poverty, thousands of girls migrate to metropolitan cities to earn their livelihood, but it seems that of a number of them are getting infected with the dreaded AIDS virus. While the
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Maharashtra will prosecute Cadbury
The Maharashtra Food and Drugs Administration has decided to prosecute Cadbury India Ltd, following a positive lab report on "insect infestations" in the chocolate samples tested. According to the
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Dengue is back, 298 cases have been reported
Too little too slow. Despite the fact that in merely twenty days dengue cases in the city shot up at an alarmingly pace from 91 to 298 as on October 2, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi has done
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70 rare herbs face extinction
Besides rich cultural heritage and captivating scenic beauty, the entire Himalayan region of Himachal Pradesh has about 3,500 species of herbs and aromatic plants. As many as 70 endangered Himalayan
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Dengue strikes 377, including AIIMS doc
An All India Institute of Medical Sciences doctor ailing from dengue suffered a brain haemorrhage. The killer fever has afflicted over 377 persons in the city so far. Bibekanand Mohanty, a
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Now chocolates under scrutiny
The finding of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) department of Maharashtra that there were some
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Dengue under control in Noida: Officials
Uttar Pradesh (UP) health officials are claiming that there is no dengue in UP. Asked about the scores of cases reported in Noida and Ghaziabad by local hospitals and the district medical
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191 more cases of dengue reported
The number of reported dengue cases have spiralled from 377 to 568 within a day, the highest ever since 1997 when the Municipal Corporation of Delhi's health department registered 316 cases. One