Vitamin D complex
When sunlight falls on the skin, it forms an essential nutrient, vitamin D. For people in India, which has an average of 300 clear sunny days in …
Food processing industry takes a toll on country's health
Eating at home isn’t the in thing anymore. Hanging out is hip, especially in the mushrooming fast food joints that blister the skylines of …
Harmful traces
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Tense? Cut down on fat
A lowfat diet can be as effective as any single drug therapy in checking high blood pressure
Many young people suffering from migraines have vitamin deficiencies
A new study shows that patients with chronic migraines were more likely to have coenzyme Q10 and riboflavin deficiencies than patients with …
Unkindest cut of all
The Union government's health budget hack is pushing Maharashtra back into the malnutrition trap
New cholesterol study may lead you to ask: Pass the eggs, or pass on the eggs?
A recent study examined the association between dietary cholesterol or egg consumption with cardiovascular disease and all causes of mortality
Eat sauce, fight cancer
Go grab a slice of pizza and be liberal with the ketchup. The tomato paste may help prevent many types of cancers
India must tackle high rate of obesity, diabetes: Global Nutrition Report of 2016
Report highlights the grim progress made by India in fighting obesity and non-communicable diseases
Childhood obesity, non-communicable diseases figure prominently at World Health Assembly
Experts say undernutrition in early childhood increases the risk of children becoming obese later in life
Large-scale child deaths in tribal Maharashtra
from April to August this year, almost 300 children fell prey to malnutrition in just two blocks (Akkalkua and Taloda) of Maharashtra's Nandurbar …
Rising CO2 emissions may increase global iron deficiency risk
The estimated percentages of lost dietary iron under rising CO2 levels range from 1.5 per cent to 5.5 per cent
Food fortification is not magic bullet to fight malnutrition
The Supreme Court order on sourcing natural food locally instead of relying on artificially-fortified commercial products was hailed by experts
Highlights of 2016 UNICEF report on the state of the world's children
The UNICEF report, titled The State of the World's Children 2016, makes startling revelations on prevalence of inequity in child health, …
India’s hunger crisis worse than Bangladesh, Nepal
Around 15 per cent of India’s population is undernourished and 38.7 per cent of children suffer from stunted growth
Proper diet for children should include eggs to provide good quality proteins
Veena Shatrugna has campaigned vigorously against brahmanical influence on the ‘balanced diet’. She explains the politics of …
Activists urge FSSAI to reconsider planned fortification of rice, oil
Instead of food fortification, the food regulator needed to promote organically grown, biodiverse food for people, ASHA said
Sure cure: how to tackle India's undernutrition crisis in 10 steps
The finance ministry and the planning department can play an overarching role by ensuring health programmes get sufficient resources
Meaty tales of vegetarian India
Indians are eating more meat and enjoying it. Higher incomes, global food chains and a vast population of young people indifferent to religious …
Salt in UNICEF's cake of success
For want of iodine
An iodine-deficient diet may be responsible for the Neanderthals' disappearance
Hunger costs Ghana $2.6 billion per year
24 per cent of all child mortality cases in Ghana are associated with undernutrition
Less iodine lowers IQs
Motherhood blues
Calcium supplements do not benefit lactating women
Junk diet