India performs badly in breastfeeding, ensuring healthy diet to children

A report blames ineffective policies, lack of budget and the absence of better monitoring policies for poor performance

Landfill emissions poison breastmilk

After finding high levels of dioxin-related compounds in breast milk of women living near landfills, a Vadodara-based non-governmental …

Not kidding

Children in developing countries continue to suffer, claims UNICEF

Toxic future

Toxic or not

Biomonitoring breastmilk

In april this year, California became the first us state to introduce a bill to biomonitor breast milk. Activists and researchers hope that once …

Sucking in toxics

Presence of pollutants such as PCBs in mothers' milk and blood restrains children's growth

Chemical sours mother's milk

Breastfeed longer

Fatal formula

How infant formula leads to obesity in adulthood

No fund for breastfeeding campaign

Poorly nursed

Most Himachal mothers breastfeed for just two weeks

Banking on mothers

A bank in Udaipur collects mothers’ milk; experts to chalk out plan to include it in national policy

Breast milk protects infants from arsenic

'We need to promote the culture of donating breast milk'

Armida Fernandez, founder trustee of Society for Nutrition, Education and Health Action, started the first human milk bank in India in 1989 in …

E-waste toxins in mum’s milk

Urban people more at risk

Malnourished Children

S K Kabra , associate professor in the paediatric pulmonology division of All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi talks to Nidhi …

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Shocks caused by COVID-19: Addressing chronic poverty, its inter-generational transfer

Any health shock causes entry into poverty for most of those who suffer from it

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Brazil

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Brain dead

When pencils and paints lead to lower IQ

Junk life

Fast food and slow death