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Where are all the extra calories coming from? From the Americanisation of food habits. From more sedentary urban lifestyles. But one surprising source is the raw grains and other ingredients people today use to cook 'traditional' dishes.Ragi is back - but only as exotica
Issue Date: Jun 30, 2003
One fine day, while traversing through lush green fields, lord Indra suddenly saw his two dear souls -- akki and ragi -- at loggerheads with each other. The rain god soon found they were wrangling over 'power' -- a matter that seemed inconsequential to him. "Good lord," he cried out.
Increased funding for bamboo project
Issue Date: Apr 15, 2003
china's stupendous success in exploiting bamboo for economic gains appears to have prompted India to follow suit. The heightened interest in this tallest member of the grass family is reflected in the latest Union budget.
Genetic map
Issue Date: Mar 31, 2003
india's department of biotechnology has launched a us $1.2 million project to unravel the genome of the water buffalo. Nearly 90 per cent of milk consumed in the country is provided by these water buffaloes.
Junk diet
Issue Date: Feb 15, 2003
Delhi kids better lay off junk food and colas. A recent study by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (aiims) reveals startling details about school students' health. It has found 23.1 per cent boys to be overweight, while 8.3 per cent fall into the obese category. The corresponding figures for girls are 27.7 per cent and 5.5 per cent. More than 1,000 adolescents were covered in the survey.
Crunch metals cure diarrhoea
@vibhavarshney Issue Date: Feb 15, 2003
research carried out in Bangladesh has shown that giving zinc supplements to children suffering from diarrhoea can reduce the duration and severity of the disease.
Food for thought
Issue Date: Nov 30, 2002
A new study adds to the evidence that iron cooking vessels are a cheap and effective way to fight iron deficiency -- the most common nutritional disorder in the world. The study was conducted in China by researchers from Cornell University, USA. Recent surveys have shown that in some poor, rural areas of northwest China, there is relatively low prevalence of anaemia.
The food revolution: How your diet can help save your llife and the world
Issue Date: Apr 30, 2002
OUR diet. How and where does it come from? Its impact on us and the entire ecosystem is of utmost concern to us. John Robbins' previous works have explored this
subject in some detail. This book takes his readers a step forward, telling them about genetically modified (GM) foods, mad cow disease and itseffecton our health. The writer highlights the benefits of healthy alternatives.
The foreword by Dean Ornish says, "The most important question, to me, is not just how long we live
Follow Up
Issue Date: Dec 31, 2001
The first commercial product from seabuckthorn, (Hippophae sp) has been finally launched in India. The fruit of this plant has high nutritive and medicinal value (A bushful of medicine, Down To Earth, Vol 9, No 21, March 31, 2001) and New Delhi-based Compact International Limited has launched Leh Berry, a juice made from it.
A pinch of salt
Issue Date: Jun 15, 2001
the Union ministry of human resource development has directed all state governments to use only iodised salt in food given free of cost under their nutrition-related programmes. "The decision would ensure better health for under-privileged sections of the society," says Vinay Agarwal, honorary joint secretary of the New Delhi-based Indian Medical Association.
