The world is off track to meet its target of reducing salt intake by almost a third by 2025, costing thousands of lives, according to this new report by the World Health Organisation (WHO). A first-of-its-kind World Health Organization (WHO) Global report on sodium intake reduction shows that the world …
BEIJING: China moved to a halt panic buying of salt triggered by rumors that iodized salt could help guard against radiation poisoning. Radiation fears over Japan
In a bid to address PM Manmohan Singh's concern on the "unacceptably high" levels of malnutrition in the country, a meeting has been called on Tuesday to examine the possibility of promoting double fortification of salt with iron. The doubly fortified salt has already been tried and tested both within …
The state government is under pressure from the Centre to stay the release of 2,177 hectares of saltpan land in Mumbai for redevelopment, fearing it would lead to trouble in the flood-prone city. The state government had planned to give this land to private developers for slum rehabilitation projects in …
Iodine deficiency is endemic in West Bengal as evident from earlier studies. This community-based, cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted in North 24 Parganas district during August-November 2005 to assess the consumption of adequately-iodized salt and to ascertain the various factors that influence access to iodized salt. In total, 506 households …
Excess dietary salt is a killer and you should take any evidence to the contrary with a large pinch of the stuff, say Franco Cappuccio and Simon Capewell.
CSMCRI To Equip Salt Workers With Technology To Improve Quality, Yield Vijaysinh Parmar | TNN Bhavnagar: Small and marginal saltpan workers in Rajula taluka of Amreli district, often known to be debt-ridden and poverty stricken, will now be armed with science and technology to help them earn more and break …
Salt bribe to keep tuskers at bay - Rehydration mission in Dalma, Dhalbhum and Seraikela-Kharsawan to help elephants beat the heat Salt slabs hanging from trees is a common sight in Dalma Wildlife Sanctuary and the forests of Dhalbhum and Seraikela-Kharsawan these days. With the onset of summer, foresters have …
A consortium of US health organisations announced a plan on Monday to encourage food manufacturers and restaurants to reduce the amount of salt in dozens of staple items by some 25 per cent during the next five years. The announcement lists specific sodium reduction targets for 61 categories of supermarket …
Cyclone Aila has altered their calculations. Hit by crop failure due to increased salinity caused by sea water surge, the farmers of the Sunderbans were pinning hope on the low-yield but salt-resistant paddy varieties that their forefathers cultivated. Only to realise that the high-yield varieties that they had preferred to …
This draft final report on Social & Environmental Assessment of Little Rann of Katchchh Landscape details the problems faced by Katchchh due to breaking down of the interdependence among the communities that inhabit the landscape, with serious socio-economic and ecological consequences. Reveals that traditional systems of managing CPRs have broken …
The Lahore High Court directed the Federal and Punjab health department and Jamia Ashrafia to submit their replies by June 27 in a petition challenging the use of unhealthy salts in making of chips commonly sold in the market. The petitioner Qari Sanaullah has questioned the fatwa given by Jamia …
Two mine workers were killed while another received serious injuries when a boulder of salt fell on them at Golewali salt mines on Sunday. According to police, Imran, Riaz and Muhammad Sadiq were busy in their routine work in salt mine when all of sudden a boulder of salt fell …
In the coastal community of Chabihau, Yucatan, Mexico, hurricanes Gilbert (1988) and Isidore (2002) opened breaches in the coastal dune. The government modified these breaches with a floodgate, channels, and bridges, allowing tidal influx that has transformed the swamp ecosystem into a coastal lagoon. Our long-term research (1990-2006) has been …
Sub-surface pipes and bio-drainage are helping revive water-logged and saline land Sub-surface pipes and bio-drainage are helping revive lakhs of acres of water-logged and saline land. Farmers whose lands in the vast tracts of canal-irrigated areas have become unfit for crop cultivation due to water-logging and the resulting soil salinity …
