Are north Indians eating wrong? New study shows imbalances & remedies

The average north Indian diet is high in salt and low in potassium, protein, increasing risk of chronic kidney disease, cardiovascular disease &…

You Are What You Eat: A Twin Experiment: Two truths about nutrition amid plenty of half-truths

You Are What You Eat was guilty of cherry-picking statistics that project vegan diets to be the healthier alternative for people of all age …

The switch: What happens to GHG emissions if half of meat, milk consumption is swapped with alternatives?

Biggest impact on agricultural input use would be seen in China, sub-Saharan Africa 

Ultra-processed foods lead to $7 trillion in hidden health, environment costs globally: Report

Consumption of highly processed foods was increasing in peri-urban and rural areas of some countries

Ultra-processed foods: Here’s what the evidence actually says about them

Ultra-processed foods are commercially manufactured products that include ingredients you wouldn’t cook with at home

Diet, lifestyle, environmental changes linked to massive cancer cases spike in under-50 adults globally

79% surge in cancer cases from 1990 to 2019, finds report

Dietary fibre affects more than your colon: How the immune system, brain and overall health benefit too

Fibres can also have microbe-independent effects on our immune system when they interact directly with receptors expressed by our cells

Nutritional crisis: India has most ‘zero-food’ children at 6.7 million; third highest prevalance among 92 LMICs

Children aged 6-23 months going without milk, solid or semisolid food in 24-hour period are ‘zero-food’

We looked at 700 plant-based foods to see how healthy they really are. Here’s what we found

A nutritional audit 700 plant-based foods in Australia found many products had high in salt or saturated fat content

Fibre is your body’s natural guide to weight management

Rather than cutting carbs out of your diet, eat them in their original fibre packaging instead

State of Food and Nutrition: Burden of poor diet

Globally, over 3,000 million people could not afford a healthy diet in 2020. Of them, 31.7%—or over 973 million—were in India

TB research shows a good diet can cut infections by nearly 50%

The TB community has typically looked for biomedical solutions, or “silver bullets”, for a social pathology, and we are struggling to …

Easy access, longer shelf life, promotion: ICRISAT finds reasons why rural India shifted to sugars & carbs

Healthy fruits, cereals & vegetables are also becoming difficult to source, finds research

India’s ultra food-processing sector growing: WHO calls for nutrient-based tax model

Food Safety and Standards Authority of India needs to clearly define high fat sugar salt food, scientists recommend

Consider setting up one exclusive shop for millets in every district: Panel to Centre

Recommendations to give impetus to consumption of coarse grains and millet-based food products

WHO releases policy recommendations to protect children from harmful effects of food marketing

Food marketing involves the use of numerous persuasive techniques to influence children's food attitudes, preferences & consumption  

The International Year of Millets is an opportunity to improve indigenous kids’ nutrition

About 4.7 million tribal children in the country suffer from chronic nutrition deprivation