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Nutrition
'Bad science' bogey
Issue Date: May 15, 2004
WHO has time and again said that the strategy is based on scientific evidence, successful campaigns against NCDs in several countries and on recommendations from health and nutrition experts from across the globe. But the sugar and food industry and their lobbyists have tried to discredit the strategy by saying that any link between obesity and diet is bad science. Civic groups say the same tactic is used by the tobacco industry, which says there is no clear evidence to show smoking affects health.
It's not fishy
Issue Date: Jan 31, 2004
a powder with a distinctly 'fish-like' flavour could be soon available in the stores of West Bengal. Scientists from Calcutta University have developed a protein powder from fish scales, which are usually thrown away. The powder can prove to be a cheap, nutritional food supplement, the scientists claim.
Hankering for more
Issue Date: Dec 31, 2003
Sweeteners ought to be less than 10 per cent of total diet. It is 12.84 per cent of diet in developed countries
• The industry is fighting this move. In the US, the sugar industry has asked the Congress to end its funding to WHO. It contends that sugar is an important and inexpensive source of energy
Quite disturbing: Pakistan nutrition survey
Issue Date: Dec 15, 2003
Pakistan, National Nutrition Survey 2001-02
The Nutrition Section of Pakistan's Planning Commission, working in collaboration with the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, launched a National Nutrition Survey 2001-02 on Monday, November 17, 2003.
Food for taught
Issue Date: Nov 30, 2003
• An inspection team of the Karnataka government pays a surprise visit to Thottadhagudathahalli primary school, located on the outskirts of Bangalore, and detects discrepancies in the rice and oil stocks meant for students' meals.
Slimmer returns
Issue Date: Aug 31, 2003
The increasing popularity of a high-fat, high-protein diet proposed by the late nutrition guru, Robert Atkins, is eating into multinational company Unilever's profits. The Atkins diet allows people to gorge on meat, cheese and fats but requires them to control their carbohydrate intake. As a result, Unilever's SlimFast brand, with its range of low-fat, food-replacement products such as milkshakes, pastas and soups, is incurring losses for the company.
World of the fat
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 1,513 calories 61 per cent FRANCE 934 calories 37 per cent EGYPT 458 calories 59 per cent MEXICO 401 calories 60 per cent SOUTH KOREA 910 calories 27 per centLand of the Free
Issue Date: Jul 15, 2003
Also discussed were methods of litigation, guerrilla tactics such as several types of unexpected lawsuit filings and pushing the envelop with cases that appear 'frivolous' to get bigger results and larger settlements.
New lands of the free
Issue Date: Jul 15, 2003
This becomes possible via increasing incomes and more urbanised lifestyles, but also food marketing channels and techniques
