Junk food monster: Take a look inside what you eat

From chips to fries, noodles to pizzas, CSE laboratory tested 33 products — 14 packaged foods and 19 fast foods — for salt, fat, …

FSSAI plans mandatory colour coding for sugary and salty foods

The move is among a number of measures which are a part of FSSAI’s new draft regulation on labelling and display

Food fudge: The story behind why India still does not have front-of-pack labelling

Seven years, four committees and two draft regulations later, India still does not have a clear labelling system to warn consumers about harmful …

Heart-friendly

Naturally occurring trans fats not harmful

Young Indians should cut down on fats, says study

India, south Asian neighbours must act against trans-fat now: WHO

The countries are among the 15 that account for two-thirds of the deaths linked to the substance

5 billion people globally exposed to toxic trans fat linked to heart disease: WHO

Diets high in trans fat can increase the risk of heart disease by 21 per cent and deaths by 28 per cent

Food fudge: What India can do to make its front-of-pack labelling robust

Countries have tried different labelling formats, but warning labels have emerged as the most effective in guiding consumers to make healthy food …

Fat-finding mission

On-off switch for fat formation identified

FSSAI launches awareness drive on trans fats

Impact of trans fats on human health in India is increasing and awareness about them is vital if they are to be eliminated altogether, says FSSAI head

Doctors vote against fat tax on soft drinks in Chicago

Doctors vote against fat tax

New theory on central obesity in South Asians

What makes your snack more appetising?

A recent study used food items with nutrients similar to those in potato chips to find out what encourages snacking

India records alarming increase in consumption of fat

Consumption of fat has considerably risen in all the states

'Bad science' bogey

Lobbies use the old trick

Stratagems vs strategy

Governments, industries gang up against WHO's plan

Killer disease

The world is getting fatter, sicker

Junk food monster: Communicating diseases

A lab study by the Centre for Science and Environment has found extremely high levels of salt, fat and trans fat in junk foods responsible for …

Faceless Figures

The status of cancer data in India is as scary as the killer itself. The most recent data on cancer by the Indian Council of Medical Research is …

Fat Chance

Reducing obesity -- the leading cause of non-communicable diseases in the world -- has become a political game. At stake are the interests of the …

Denmark imposes fat tax

The surcharge will be levied on food items containing more than 2.3 per cent saturated fat.

Breathing easy

A hundred medicines, a dozen therapies but no cure, that is the story of asthma treatment world wide. Complementary medicine fill the vacuum

Gasping millions

Asthma, the bane of modern life, stalks the young ones and the affluent. It will strike 32 million people in India by 2010. The silent strangler …

Great Man's distortion

How we came to fear saturated fat

Bad feed