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. …
BARELY a day seems to pass without a new study reporting the benefits of omega-3 fatty acids. A high intake of omega-3s has been linked with reduced rates of depression, cardiovascular disease and homicide. In pregnant women the consumption of these wonder molecules has even been associated with an uplift …
THE shelves of every supermarket are packed with probiotic yogurts that can supposedly ease constipation and fend off infections, butter substitutes that claim to reduce cholesterol, tomato extracts said to keep skin looking young while warding off cancer, infant cereals enhanced with micronutrients essential for development, and so on. Food …
In order to provide fresh cooked food under Midday Meal Scheme run by Rural Development Department the Women and Child Development Department will be launching Sanjha Chulha Yojana on November 1, said Minister of State for Women and Child Development Ranjana Baghel here today. Ms Baghel informed that freshly cooked …
The nutrition levels of displaced children under 5 years of age living in welfare villages in the North have significantly improved since their arrival in the camps in May, Secretary to the Ministry of Health and Nutrition Dr. Athula Kahandaliyanage said yesterday. Addressing the media, Dr Kahandaliyanage said two nutrition …
In what will be music to the ears of banana cultivators, a Gujarat based agriculture university has successfully converted parts of the fruit's plant, which are usually thrown away as waste, into highly useful products, including an edible candy with nutritional values. Under a project, value chain, on utilisation of …
Ladakh, truly described as high altitude cold-arid desert is one of the far most eastern regions of J&K; state, India. Because of unfavourable and hostile environment prevailing over the region, cultivation is limited to a very less scale (both time and place). Under these conditions, one of the major reasons …
In recent years, a number of countries have begun drafting specific legislation aimed at ensuring or promoting the realization of the right to food; these include Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Indonesia, Malawi, Mali, Mexico, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Peru, South Africa, Uganda and Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of). While several other …
This guide describes methods and tools with which to undertake a right to adequate food assessment. The guide attempts to be practical, and to provide the most relevant methodological and operational information. The material contained in the guide draws on lessons learned from FAO-supported country case studies on the right …
Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life. The four pillars of food security are availability, access, utilization and stability. The nutritional dimension …
This Save the Children report highlights the achievements and challenges in ensuring the survival of children under the age of five. Its publication coincides with the launch of the global campaign on newborn and child survival and serves to remind world leaders to honour their commitments to achieve Millennium Development …
The wisdom that indigenous people have regarding bioprospecting is embedded in their belief system and their culture. Food insects play an important role in the new insect focus. Ants, bees, termites, caterpillars, water bugs, beetle larvae, flies, crickets, katydids, cicadas, and dragonfly nymphs are among a long list of edible …
There has been an animated debate in the past three years over the supply of food in the ICDS (Integrated Child Development Services) programme. Supplementary nutrition has been provided to all children under the age of six since the inception of the programme more than three decades ago. This was …
The ICDS programme launched in the 1970s was based on the results of extensive surveys which identified rampant child under-nutrition in India. Using the weight-for-age and height-for-age criteria, only 10 per cent children under five could be classified normal. And 15-20 per cent were underweight even when they were short. …
Gandhinagar: The Planning Commission has decided to fund three new schemes to help Gujarat improve its health index, which is low compared to many other states. Planning Commission approved the state
Lawrence Haddad Imagine if three thousand Indians died every day from swine flu. The number is closer to ten a day but the malady still draws media attention. More than three thousand Indians a day die from malnutrition
Civil society and the media are unfairly blaming a government nutrition programme I have been a political journalist for over three decades. Only recently have I become familiar with the nitty gritty of development reporting. The manner in which malnutrition is covered by a section of the media has come …
One of the major factors affecting the health and growth of children in the State is lack of easy accessibility to immunization services. Lack of information regarding nutrition and inaccessibility to nutritious food have also become a matter of concern with more than 50 per cent of children in the …
Harda: In order to combat malnutrition among children and expectant mothers, the district administration has been geared up to provide nutrient-enriched packaged food every week at anagnwadis, official sources said today. The scheme would be implemented shortly in which young children and expectant mothers would be benefitted. This hygiene and …
New Study By US Researchers Finds That Even Strenuous Exercise May Not Lead To Weight Loss If Diet Is Not Controlled Abantika Ghosh | TNN Aarti (name changed) opened a packet of salted peanuts when a colleague piped in:
