Report by the Central Pollution Control Board in the matter of In re: News item appearing in Times of India dated 10.10.2023 titled “Delhi, Chennai studies hint at pollution link to diabetes” dated 14/12/2023. CPCB has duly identified 131 cities exceeding National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) consecutively for five …
At the present stage of India's health transition, chronic diseases contribute to an estimated 53% of deaths and 44% of disability-adjusted life-years lost. Cardiovascular diseases and diabetes are highly prevalent in urban areas. Tobacco-related cancers account for a large proportion of all cancers. Tobacco consumption, in diverse smoked and smokeless …
sri lanka's environmentalists are alarmed at the recent alleged export of a large consignment of a threatened medicinal plant to Japan for use in drug manufacture. The kothala himbutu creeper (Salacia reticulata Wight), which is scarce and takes very long to grow, has been used for generations to fight diabetes. …
cocoa harms: Cocoa-based chocolates have higher contents of harmful heavy metals (lead, cadmium and nickel) than milk-based chocolates and fruit flavour-based or sugar-based candies, according to a recent study at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai. The researchers led by Sudhir Dahiya looked at 69 brands of chocolates and …
medicinal food might just replace the pill that diabetics need to take before every meal. Studies carried out by us researchers have shown the extract of a woody climber, Salacia oblonga, taken as part of the diet regulates the blood sugar levels in a way similar to that achieved by …
The terms of reference of the National Commission on Macroeconomics & Health, included among others, a critical appraisal of the present health system — both in the public and the private sector — and suggesting ways and means of further strengthening it with the specific objective of improving access to …
women who drink more than one soft drink a day are more likely to suffer from diabetes than females who consume less than one a month, according to a research. The study, which has been published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, is based on the analysis of …
asian Indian men, whether overweight or not, are at an increased risk for type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases because their bodies metabolise fat like people who are obese. This is the finding of a study conducted by researchers from the us-based University of Texas (ut). When people take in …
simple remedy: A protein of sheep's red blood cells can become the perfect remedy for brain tumours, as per researchers from B C Roy Postgraduate Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Kolkata. During experiments, the protein, called T11TS/SLFA-3, increased rats' survival time by 350 days
function opengr4(){ var popurl="html/20030715_gr4.htm" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=425,height=500,scrollbars=yes") } Example: India & China Developing countries today are passing through what nutrition experts call a ‘dietary transition’. The dietary transition consists of a number of interlinked shifts: • A change in the methods of food production, processing, storage and distribution. As a capitalist economy …
function opengr3(){ var popurl="html/20030715_gr3.htm" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=500,height=500,scrollbars=yes") } Land of the Fat In the last week of June, the big fight regarding obesity in the US took on real flesh as more than 100 lawyers, consumer advocates and activists landed up at Shillman Hall in Northeastern University, Boston, US, to attend a …
Economists C P Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh call this phenomenon the “calorie consumption puzzle”. Delving into the data released by the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSS) on nutritional intake in India
It is well established that exposure to dioxins can lead to reproductive problems and cancer. Now, a recent analysis has found a correlation between the harmful chemical and diabetes. Researchers from Ontario-based University of Guelph have analysed a variety of epidemiological studies and found that high levels of dioxins can …
canadian scientists have set up a sophisticated computing lab that will help speed up research into diseases like cancer and diabetes. The lab allows researchers to view three-dimensional models of the smallest parts of the human biological makeup. The results are so realistic that one cannot resist reaching out to …
obesity and diabetes are related at the molecular level, researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (bidmc), usa have found out. They have identified a mechanism that helps explain how the hormone leptin acts to metabolize fatty acids in muscle, establishing for the first time a novel molecular link between …
about 12.1 per cent of adults over the age of 20 in India suffer from diabetes, reveals the National Urban Diabetes Survey (nuds) carried out by the Diabetes Epidemiology Survey Group in India (desi). The survey shows that every eighth person in the urban areas suffers from the disease. In …
Once thought as a malady of the rich, obesity and diabetes are now on the rise in the slums, a recent study by Anoop Misra of the department of medicine at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) has shown. In what can only be termed as a startling revelation, …
With the help of a chemical, diabetes sufferers with early symptoms could be prevented from developing the disease completely, research has suggested. Trials found that a specific peptide
