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. …
Almost 13,000 infants in China have been taken to hospital after falling ill from drinking tainted milk powder, the health ministry said on Sunday, according to the state media. The ministry said in a briefing on the crisis that the total number of babies admitted to hospital after drinking poisoned …
Anuradha Mascarenhas Posted: Sep 21, 2008 at 0118 hrs IST Pune, September 20 Paracetamol, a widely prescribed drug for fever and pain, has come under the scanner with a global study showing that its use in the first year of life is associated with the risk of asthma and eczema …
THE Bombay High Court on Thursday asked the state government to explain why 176 children died of malnutrition till July 2008 in Dharni and Melghat areas of Amravati district. The court has directed the Additional Principal Secretary, Health, Chandra Iyengar and Director, Health Services Prakash Doke to visit Melghat and …
Beijing, Around 6,244 infants have fallen ill and three others have died in China after consuming milk contaminated by melamine, the state media said here on Wednesday. While many had now recovered, 1,327 still remained in hospital, of whom 158 were suffering from acute kidney failure, the Xinhua news agency …
Bloomberg / Shanghai September 18, 2008, 5:59 IST Wal-Mart Stores Inc, Starbucks Corp and other food retailers in China scrambled today to assuage growing safety concerns fueled by widened recalls of tainted milk powder and the discovery of toxins in dairy products. The world
Asian countries including Bangladesh may have imported the tainted milk formula that has claimed the lives of 3 babies in China so far. China's Guangdong-based Yashili and Qingdao-based Suncare recalled their tainted milk powder, which is exported to five countries in Africa and Asia: Bangladesh, Yemen, Gabon, Burundi and Myanmar. …
Patralekha Chatterjee THE UNDERFED still outnumber the overfed. But food is the new religion of aspiring India, competing with sex on the pleasure-o-meter of the urbane and the upward-mobile. There have always been those who clearly love food for its abiding satisfactions. But the food gurus of today are the …
Potential new concerns about the safety of bisphenol, a widely used chemical Several States are considering restricting BPA use No strong evidence of health hazards: government experts CHICAGO: The first major study of health effects in people from a chemical used in plastic baby bottles, food cans and a host …
Saibal Dasgupta | TNN Beijing: The Chinese government finally claimed some success in tackling the scandal concerning contaminated baby foods that has resulted in the death of another infant, taking the toll to two, and caused severe sickness in at least 600 others. On Monday, it announced the arrest of …
Mumbai, September 15 Last year, after malnourishment surfaced in adivasi padas in Aarey Colony, ICDS along with tribal department started anganwadis and mini anganwadis It took a week and one death of a six-month-old for the Integrated Child Development Service (ICDS) of Woman and Child Development Department to wake up …
Chinese officials knew for weeks about sales of chemical-tainted milk powder that has killed two infants and sickened 1,253, but did not act until the New Zealand government pressed Beijing, New Zealand's prime minister said yesterday. The sale of tainted infant formula by Sanlu Group, the Chinese producer 43 per …
CHILDREN STUNTED IN SRI LANKA: The infant mortality rate (IMR) of Sri Lanka, as per the latest demographic and health survey 2006-2007, is 15 per 1,000 live births. The IMR was 12 per 1,000 live births in 2005. In the same year, IMR in India was 56. The survey also …
This paper seeks to measure deprivation in terms of physical development and calorie-intake of children in two villages of Orissa. While the first aspect focuses on retardation in the physical growth of children as reflected in their weights vis-
The failure of decentralisation, the lack of inter-sectoral coordination, and the undermining of traditional health support are the reasons why the National Rural Health Mission has not delivered what it had set out to achieve.
As the wild polio virus (P3) resurfaced in Bargarh district, many questions were raised about the effectiveness of the polio eradication drive in the State. And whether the routine immunization (RI) process being rightly followed or participation from the target groups is up to mark? Though these factors are associated …
Chennai AMID the giggles of dozens of children at the Konambedu Municipality School here on Sunday, Health Secretary V K Subburaj formally launched a Rotary Club programme to combat malnutrition among children.The programme, organised by the 12 clubs under the 3230 Rotary District and called
