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. …
An investigation by The BMJ has uncovered evidence of the extraordinary extent to which key public health experts are involved with the sugar industry and related companies responsible for many of the products blamed for the obesity crisis through research grants, consultancy fees, and other forms of funding. Original Source
Eating out at fast food joints seems to be a way of life for most families, but one study has discovered a link between consumption of fast foods and a decline in testing ability among grade-school children. So detrimental are the changes in their body, say researchers at Ohio State …
The worldwide cost of obesity is about the same as smoking or armed conflict and greater than both alcoholism and climate change, research has suggested. The McKinsey Global Institute said it cost £1.3tn, or 2.8% of annual economic activity - it cost the UK £47bn. Some 2.1bn people - about …
McDonald’s and KFC in China faced a new food safety scare on Monday after a Shanghai television station reported a supplier sold them expired beef and chicken. The companies said they immediately stopped using meat from the supplier, Husi Food Co., Ltd. The Shanghai office of China’s food and drug …
McDonald’s and KFC in China faced a new food safety scare Monday after a Shanghai television station reported a supplier sold them expired beef and chicken. The companies said they immediately stopped using meat from the company, Husi Food Co., Ltd. The official Xinhua News Agency said authorities had ordered …
The objective of the study was to determine the prevalence of overweight and obesity among children and adolescents in Chennai, India, using national and international age- and sex- specific body mass index (BMI) cut-off points. Original Source
To the dismay of public health experts, it has become common to see fast-food and sugary drinks companies sponsoring major sporting events. The 2014 FIFA World Cup, which started this week in Brazil, is no exception, as highlighted in a letter in today's issue by Thiago Hérick de Sá. FIFA's …
Indians are eating out more often now, as many as eight times a month: report With restaurants mushrooming at every nook and corner of the city, residents are embracing the culture of eating out like never before. Grabbing a quick bite at the nearest restaurant saves them time and helps …
Trans fats naturally exist in small amounts in the fat in meat and milk, but most trans fats in the food supply have been added by food manufacturers. Since 1911, when Procter and Gamble introduced Crisco, companies have used artificial trans fats because of their commercially favorable properties, such as …
Non-government organisation Uday Foundation, which has sought a ban on the sale of junk food in school premises and within a 500-metre radius, on Wednesday questioned the logic of restricting the availability of such food items only there. In its submission before a Division Bench of Justice G. Rohini and …
The Supreme Court today extended the deadline for implementing the ban on the sale of 25 food articles packed in polythene sheets in HP till February 14 . A Bench comprising Justices RM Lodha and SK Singh passed the order on petitions filed by the Himachal Pradesh Vyapar Mandal and …
Order of the High Court of Delhi on sale of junk food in school canteens of Delhi, 29/10/2013 in the matter of Uday Foundation For Congenital Defects And Rare Blood Groups Vs Union of India & Others. RELATED CONTENT CSE Study: Nutritional analysis of junk food. Book: Junk food busted. …
Mexico's ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) is ready to support an opposition proposal to increase a planned tax on junk food included in the government's fiscal reform, the PRI's leader in the Senate said on Wednesday. Last week, the lower house of Congress approved President Enrique Pena Nieto's fiscal reform, …
A staggering 80% of Lucknowites in their early 40s face high risk of developing heart disease against the national average of 70%, according to a study conducted in 12 cities over a period of three years. The study was conducted only among respondents belonging to the age group of 30 …
Fifty-four per cent of Delhiites and Chandigarhians face the risk of heart attacks because of obesity. More than 50% of Mumbaikars have unhealthy cholesterol levels while around 64% lead a sedentary life and avoid exercise. These are some of the disturbing findings of a mega study, conducted across nine cities …
Forty-eight per cent of Mumbaikars face the risk of heart attacks because of obesity, more than 50% have unhealthy cholesterol levels while around 64% lead a sedentary life and avoid exercise. These are some of the disturbing findings of a mega study, conducted across nine cities among 1.8 lakh people, …
FSSAI will put the draft guidelines in front of a seven-member expert committee Fast food-burgers In what would alter the consumption pattern of products such as burgers, pizzas, sandwiches, snack foods and soft drinks in schools, the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) is putting in place final …
Hyderabad: Promoting food items with discount offers, coupons, and hoardings is luring children and adolescents into eating high-energy foods. However the energy not being burnt, said experts at the National Seminar on Obesity, Contemporary issues and Challenges on Tuesday. Experts felt that the food industry was vociferously marketing its products …
Quick service restaurant (QSR) television advertisements for children’s meals were compared with adult advertisements from the same companies to assess whether self-regulatory pledges for food advertisements to children had been implemented. Original Source
For countries with rich culinary traditions that date back to the Aztecs and Incas, Mexico and Peru have developed quite a taste for modern food fashions. Mexicans quaff more fizzy drinks than any other country; Peru has the highest density of fast-food joints in the world. Chile, one of the …
