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. …
diarrhoea is one of the major killer diseases among children in poorer countries. Over three million kids die every year due to diarrhoeal diseases, many of whom can be saved. One of the simple and most effective means of preventing these deaths in children has been the oral dehydration therapy …
cases of malaria are on the rise across the world. Malaria, transmitted by the Anopheles mosquitoes, kills over one million people and causes 300-500 million episodes of illness each year. Majority of the 3,000 deaths each day and 10 new cases each second occur in Africa. Malaria not only takes …
Women juggling busy careers and a heavy load of household responsibilities may be at a high risk for developing complications during pregnancy. In fact, demands on pregnant women at home "maybe (even) greater than the demands at work,' according to Barbara Luke and colleagues at the University of Michigan Medical …
In Burma, there are an estimated 100,000 new tuberculosis cases each year. However, despite the crisis, the government is following the recommendations laid down by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to decrease the threat. At the second national seminar on tuberculosis, minister for health Ket Sein said about 75 per …
southeast Asian countries, including India, have been declared as guineaworm free by the World Health Organisation ( who ). After small pox, this is the second disease to have been eradicated from the region. The who made the declaration after an intensive probe by the global panel of the fourth …
suddenly the air in Kathmandu is cleaner and does not burn your eyes or cause a feeling of suffocation. The sole reason for this drastic improvement in air quality is the banning of diesel-operated Vikram tempos from the capital's streets since September 1999. In their place battery-operated tempos have been …
there have been several studies to prove the positive effects of a proper diet in maintaining good health. But now a study shows that eating large amounts of fruits and vegetables also improve the functioning of lungs. Investigators from the Netherlands, Italy, Finland and the us participated in this study …
there are certain ailments that are not universal and some that invariably strike irrespective of whether it is a man or a woman, working, self-employed or even a housewife. Back pain is one such complaint that is increasingly topping the list of serious urban health problems. There is enough epidemiological …
Pakistan ranks fifth among countries most severely affected by tuberculosis in the world. This was stated by the country's director-general health services Ahsan Ahmed at an international preparatory conference on tb in Bankok recently. He urged the international community to assist Pakistan's efforts to eradicate the disease by providing technical …
The Sri Lankan government intends to invest about Rs 41 crore (Indian rupees) this year for the improvement of western and indigenous medicine sector. Nimal Siripala de Silva, minister for health and indigenous medicine said that this was an increase of 40 per cent over the previous year's allocation. He …
Thanks to the fitness mania, women are increasingly taking to weight training. The good news is such women may do more than build up their biceps. Bharathi Prabhakaran and her team at the Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, USA put 24 women through a test of weightlifting over a …
Children exposed to their parents' smoking may soon begin suing them. A recently-released report by Eugene Arocca, a partner at the Australia-based Maurice Blackburn Cashman, says that the focus in tobacco litigation in Australia will soon shift from exposure in the workplace to family law and the hospitality industry. He …
breastfeeding has a positive effect on the intelligence of babies, besides lowering their risk of developing blood cancer and making them less vulnerable to asthma, going by some recently published reports. Researchers from the University of Kentucky in Lexington, usa , suggest that the intelligence quotient ( iq ) of …
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) have called on the leaders of countries where polio still exists to give full cooperation to the global effort to eradicate the disease by the end of this year. "We are on the verge of an historic public …
Florida's Supreme Court has dealt the US tobacco industry a heavy blow by refusing to overturn an earlier appeals court ruling allowing a class action suit to be brought against the tobacco giants. This ruling could leave tobacco makers open to us $300 billion lawsuit filed by thousands of ailing …
deputy chairperson of the planning commission K C Pant inaugurated the second phase of the National aids Control Project and urged all sections of society to address one of the biggest health challenges facing the country. As cases of aids infections in India are likely to increase threefold to 10 …
If you are suffering from a cold, do not blow your nose. Every time you do that, you prolong your suffering, say Jack Gwaltney and Birgit Winther of the University of Virgina in Charlottsville, USA, who studied computerised tomography (CT) scans of sinuses of patients suffering with a cold. They …
The second phase of the anti-polio programme in Pakistan commenced from November 30. Some 7.2 million children under five years will be given polio drops. According to the health department, volunteers and health workers manning more than 30,000 mobile units have been given specific centres in the province for administering …
cholesterol is much misunderstood as a compound. True, much of the wrong sort of fat-like substance can get deposited and inhibit blood flow. Yet, it forms the raw material for making hormones and acts as a carrier for fats. And a recent study has associated low cholesterol levels with severe …
