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
Nutrition
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Healthy idea
But a poor way to bell the malnutrition cat
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Diversity in calorie sources and undernourishment during rapid economic growth
This paper compares the experiences of India and Vietnam in dietary diversity and undernourishment from the early 1990s to the middle of the first decade of the new millennium. Feb 23-29, 2008
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Sri Lanka tops South East Asia in Malaria control
Sri Lanka has won kudos as being the first among all South East Asian countries which had successfully controlled the Malaria epidemic. Healthcare and Nutrition Ministry sources said.
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Govt plans to raise allocation for food in public hospitals
The government is planning to increase its allocation for food to all the public hospitals because of the price spiral of essentials.
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Anaemia in adolescent girls reduced by almost 10pc
The prevalence of anaemia among adolescent girls has been reduced from 52.4 per cent in 2004 to 43.5 per cent in 2007, revealed the Helen Keller International at a seminar on Monday.
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Future Food: Peru - Old or New?
Behind an unmarked door in a Lima suburb, Javier Wong is planning a revolution in more than just stir-fry cooking. In fact the very future of food - and farming - is being re-imagined here in a city where
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Future Food: India - 'Fat or Skinny?'
In India Tulika Verma is on a mission to ban junk food from Delhi’s schools – where over one in six schoolchildren are overweight. Western-style diets and processed food are becoming ever more popular
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Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2), 19-21 November 2014, Rome, Italy
The Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2), an inclusive inter-governmental meeting on nutrition jointly organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Health Organization