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 provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
New Delhi: Despite witnessing high economic growth during the last few years, India has been ranked below many of its neighbouring countries like China and Pakistan, a global hunger index published on Monday by International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), said. One of the few economies to register healthy growth …
How important is the role of food technologist in food industry? Food technologist play a pivotal role in food industry. They ensure the quality of food stuff and implement new innovations. The fast paced life especially in big cities has changed the consumption pattern of the people. This has led …
The only hope of feeding India's future population of 1500 million lies in the sea food and horticulture. National Commission for Farms and Farmers under chairmanship of Prof. M. S. Swaminathan says that Indian farming has become profitless. The best way to make it profitable is through adding processing industry …
The Right to Food and Nutrition Watch is a powerful tool to put pressure on policymakers at the national and international level to take the human right to food and nutrition into account. The Right to Food and Nutrition Watch provides a platform for human rights experts, civil society activists, …
Following more than a decade of seemingly inexorable increases in the number of undernourished people, estimates for 2010 presented in this edition of The State of Food Insecurity in the World show a slight glimmer of hope, with the first fall since 1995. But that still leaves nearly a billion …
More than 82 million children are underweight in commonwealth countries, according to Save the Children in a new report, which says that if these children are ever to stand a fair chance of survival
SOY is an enduring favourite of healthfood aficionados. It is known to ward off cancer and reduce risk of brittle bone and heart diseases. The oil seed owes its ability to antioxidants. The trick to exploit these fully is to change the way soy is consumed, say scientists at Banaras …
HUMAN gut is host to numerous species of bacteria that enhance metabolism, protect against pathogens and prime our immune system to fight diseases. Dietary habits determine the diversity of this bacterial flora. Understanding this interplay is important as it controls the abilities of our gastrointestinal tracts. With increased use of …
Importance:Health Minister M.R.K. Panneerselvam, at a workshop on micro nutrients in Chennai recently. CHENNAI: Ensuring the nutritional security of children is essential for a healthy community, Health Minister M.R.K. Panneerselvam said here recently. He was inaugurating a workshop aimed at sensitising public health workers on the importance of micronutrients in …
During the Great Depression, US Works Progress Administration hit upon a novel way to find employment for out-ofwork scribes and writers. It asked them to document what people in different regions of the US were eating. At the end of the Depression, the agency gave up the project. The material …
More teens are getting cardiac problems today. Is it stress, the lifestyle or just the air? Aneesh Mahajan (name changed), 14, a ninth standard student in Mumbai, had been having problems with anxiety and palpitations for some time. He wasn
Lawrence Haddad We need to make sure nutrition is not easily neglected. And that means putting pressure on leaders throughout society to focus on nutrition. I have just finished a trip to India to help contribute to the efforts on ending malnutrition. The politicians and media were talking about the …
Looking for a quick way to feel lousy about yourself? Then forget the idea of a healthy diet and just eat what your body wants you to eat. Your body wants meat; your body wants fat; your body wants salt and sugar. Your body will put up with fruits and …
Jorhat, Sept. 2: From finding a cure for AIDS to providing food security to the world, genomics is indispensable for curing many an ill, Padma Bhushan Asis Datta, Professor of Eminence, National Institute of Plant Genome Research, JNU, said here today. Delivering the 16th JN Baruah Memorial lecture at the …
BHUBANESWAR: Even after three decades of its launch, the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) in Orissa is yet to achieve half of its nutritional objective. As per the latest report, the nutritional status of only 47.33 per cent children under ICDS are detected as normal as on December 31, 2009. …
Rajasthan is under the grip of severe food insecurity with 22 of its 32 districts being labeled as ‘most food insecure’ in this study released by Institute for Human Development & World Food Programme. The main objectives of this report are to analyze the nature and dynamics of the food …
This new report on the state of food insecurity in urban India by MSSRF shows that the period of economic reforms and high GDP growth has not seen an unambiguous improvement in urban food security across all States. In recent years, the pace of urbanisation has been increasing. In deliberations …
This article reports findings from a survey of anganwadis, undertaken in the tribal region of Gujarat. It was found that services were poorer in the more backward and distant hilly areas than in the plain areas of the region. The coverage of population by anganwadis was not uniform and was …
