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. …
scientists may have found a new approach to muscular dystrophy, a fatal genetic disorder characterized by weakening of skeletal muscles. Not much is known about how the disease manifests itself. Recently, however, a team of French and German researchers found that a kind of muscular dystrophy is caused due to …
treating drinking tap water with chlorine makes it bacteria-free. But its by-products may increase the risk of abnormalities among newborns, says a recent study. Researchers studied data on 400,000 infants in Taiwan and by products of chlorine in the water separately from 2001-03. Using these two sets of data, the …
Bindu Shajan Perappadan Obesity in urban kids increased from 16 p.c. to 24 p.c. from 2002 to 2007 NEW DELHI: Childhood obesity is tilting the scale against children in urban Delhi with the latest survey on "Childhood obesity in Asian Indians' finding them more overweight and unhealthier than those surveyed …
Malaria is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in early childhood, yet its consequences for health and education during the school-age years remain poorly understood. The researchers examined the effect of intermittent preventive treatment (IPT) in reducing anaemia and improving classroom attention and educational achievement in semi-immune schoolchildren in …
Children living in areas of high malaria transmission rapidly acquire immunity to malaria in early childhood; by the time they reach school age, the risk of clinical attacks and death has reduced.However, many school-aged children continue to harbour asymptomatic parasitaemia, which can cause anaemia.4 Although malaria might have an adverse …
The programme will cover about 1.5 lakh children Sir Ganga Ram Hospital will collaborate in it NEW DELHI: Mayor Arti Mehra on Thursday said that after completion of the anaemia control programme in the Capital's Shahdara North and Shahdara South zones, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi has now decided to …
The state health department has decided to award a trophy to the police recruits of the IRB, Bhondsi, in recognition of their contribution to administering polio drops to kids during the pulse polio rounds in Gurgaon district, besides learning effective policing techniques. Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda will present the …
Barnala: At least 40 students of a government school in Roore Ke village in Barnala district were taken ill after eating fruit of jatropha (ratanjot) grown on the school premises. Sources said all the students were admitted to Barnala Civil Hospital, where they were said to be out of danger. …
Taking a serious note of irregularities in distribution of food to anganwari children, under the mid-day meal scheme in Barara sub-division, the Sub-Divisional Magistrate, Ashwini Mengi, has ordered an inquiry into the matter, which will be conducted by the Child Development Project Officer. Sources informed that the meals were being …
In an effort to propagate the message that polio drops should be administered to all babies, members of Rotary International today took Mr Gautham Lewis, a victim of polio and an ambassador of the organisation and made a door-to-door polio eradication campaign in parts of Nonadanga, Metiabruz, and Topsia today. …
Hyderabad, July 4: Students from classes I to X in state schools will get free mid-day meals from August. At present, only students from class I to VII are getting mid-day meals and the state government has decided to extend the scheme to all classes from this academic year. Teachers …
The Meghalaya government today admitted a nexus between school managing committees and distributors of foodgrain which has badly affected implementation of the Mid-day Meal Scheme (MDM). The government made the admission after a review meeting of the scheme in north-eastern states with Central Government officials here. Parliamentary Secretary Mass and …
Chronic arsenic exposure causes a wide range of health effects, but little is known about critical windows of exposure. Arsenic readily crosses the placenta, but the few available data on postnatal exposure to arsenic via breast milk are not conclusive. The goal of the study was to assess the arsenic …
A comprehensive migration database was established for bisphenol A from polycarbonate baby bottles into water during exposure to microwave heating. Eighteen different brands of polycarbonate baby bottles sold in Europe were collected. Initial residual content of bisphenol A and migration after microwave heating were determined. Residual content of bisphenol A …
Despite huge investments in the health sector and vast manpower deployed, Uttar Pradesh has become a cauldron of diseases. Every second child in the state is under the threat of being attacked by diseases like encephalitis, measles, polio, dengue, malaria, tuberculosis, not to talk of diseases like diarrhoea of which …
Those who say that advertisements have little role in luring people to smoking need to think again. A recent Indo- us study, conducted on 11,642 sixth and eighth graders in Delhi and Tamil Nadu found that nearly 50 per cent of the kids had seen and remembered a tobacco advertisement. …
