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. …
The Central government cannot prohibit or restrict “junk food” or “proprietary food” such as samosas, jalebis, pizzas and burgers, but will come up with guidelines to make available only healthy food in schools. The Delhi High Court on Wednesday gave six months’ time to the Food Safety and Standards Authority …
The vast majority of American middle schools and high schools sell what are known as ‘‘competitive foods,’’ such as soft drinks, candy bars, and chips, to children. The relationship between consumption of sugar-sweetened drinks and snacks and childhood obesity is well established, but it remains unknown whether competitive food sales …
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday sought the central government's response on a petition filed by students of a private school in south Delhi seeking a ban on the sale of junk food and carbonated drinks within 1,500 feet radius of their institution. The division bench of Acting Chief Justice …
New Delhi: Students of a private school approached the Delhi high court on Wednesday seeking a ban on the sale of junk food and aerated drinks inside and nearby educational institutions. A division bench comprising acting chief justice A K Sikri and justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw took note of the …
The US House of Representatives dealt a blow to childhood obesity warriors by passing a bill that abandons proposals that threatened to end the reign of pizza and French fries on federally funded school lunch menus. The scuttled changes, which would have stripped pizza’s status as a vegetable and limited …
Pranjal Gupta, a class 5 student, prefers eating in her school canteen instead of carrying a tiffin box. Her friends in school too eat pav bhaji, vada pav or chowmein from the canteen. Many students like eating in the school canteen because they get to eat what they like and …
The All-India Food Processors Association (AIFPA) today approached the Delhi High Court, pleading that the court should hear them before passing any final order on a petition that seeks ban on carbonated beverages and junk food in school and college canteens. The AIFPA, in its application filed before the division …
New Delhi: Samosas, bread pakoras, burgers, pizzas and colas might make one’s mouth water, but the health risks posed by them are many. In an attempt to wean schoolchildren off junk food, some city schools are offering healthier options like ‘fruit breaks’. Others have made weekly yoga classes a must …
With over Rs 8000-crore junk food industry in India fuelling a host of health disorders such as obesity, diabetes and hypertension amongst urban adolescents -- serious facts came out of the roundtable organised by CSE at New Delhi. This document presents the discussion note during the Round Table organised by …
Global leaders are preparing to meet in New York on September 19 and 20 to chart the way forward to tackle noncommunicable diseases, the number one killer in the world. On the stealth, the pharma and food industries and some rich countries are also at work to weaken the initiative. …
Balls of ground chickpeas tossed into vats of sizzling oil and served with pickles and salads inside a pitta bread is a standard fast food across much of West Asia. But the ubiquitous, family owned falafel street stalls and cafes in Israel faced a challenge earlier this year when McDonald’s …
CARBONATED drinks and junk food may soon be off the shelves of school and college canteens. The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) said this in a counter-affidavit filed in the Delhi High Court on July 18. Global bans • US passes bill in December 2010 banning junk …
Doctors and non-government organisations working in the area of child welfare have welcomed the Union Health Ministry's initiative to ban fast food in institutional areas.
Affidavit filed in the Delhi High Court by Food and Safety Standards Authority of India (Union Health Ministry) regarding petition of Uday Foundation to ban junk food in schools dated July 2011. Original Source: http://udayfoundationindia.org/Affidavit_filed_in_the_Delhi_High_Court_by_Food_and_Safety_Standards_Authority_of_India.pdf
Once again there is a food safety scare. A deadly strain of E coli bacterium has hit Germany, where it has taken the lives of 25 people and affected another 2,300 till date. German food inspectors on the trail of the source of contamination have as yet made two errors—blaming …
Obesity has reached epidemic proportions worldwide and reports estimate that American children consume up to 25% of calories from snacks. Several animal models of obesity exist, but studies are lacking that compare high-fat diets (HFD) traditionally used in rodent models of diet-induced obesity (DIO) to diets consisting of food regularly …
Skinny and visibly weak, 39- year-old Rajkumar Haribhajan Patil had been suffering from contractions in the chest, and feeling panicky and restless for the past five years. In January 2010, he suffered severe palpitations and was rushed to a private clinic in Warud, in Maharashtra’s Nagpur district. Doctors diagnosed him …
Rapid urbanisation of rural India is steadily pushing the common man’s aspiration levels. Increase in stress and forced lifestyle changes have offered the most conducive base for the rise and rise of hypertension, say doctors and researchers. Achieving a clear perspective on the country’s health, particularly its rural part, is …
It was once associated with the rich and urban. Today, hypertension is fast spreading in rural India. This is a cause for concern because hypertension, if not checked, can lead to heart and kidney diseases. Healthcare facilities are already poor in villages, where nearly three-fourths of Indians live. For the …
A Finnish group calling itself the Food Liberation Army has posted a spoof terrorist-style clip on video-sharing website YouTube, with five masked characters threatening to “execute” Ronald McDonald if the fast food giant failed to answer its questions. The group “kidnapped” the McDonald’s mascot from a Helsinki restaurant. “We love …
