Low and middle income countries have seen greatest rise in obese children between 1990 and 2014: Report

At least 41 million children around the world obese or overweight, it says

Mind your diet

Eating junk food in early years can cause mental problems later

The beauty & beast of malnutrition

Endgame begins

Experts say India needs to move beyond oral vaccine to battle vaccine-generated polio

Prickly issue

Will the inclusion of Hepatitis B vaccination in the Universal Immunisation Programme help?

Exposing America's toxic burden

Pesticides Action Network's report says Americans carry high pesticide levels in their bodies

Cough syrup can harm children: Experts warn of contamination risks

Toxicologists Winston Morgan and Shazma Bashir unpack the dangers of glycol poisoning 

2022 too short, too far: How food systems evolved for the hungry

Down To Earth recaps the primary environment, health and developmental news from 2022

Why UNICEF wants to raise $255 million this year for eastern, southern Africa

The additional funds will support children with adequate, life-saving nutrition services

Population populism: How redundant is UP’s two-child policy?

The recent UP Population Policy aims to reduce the state’s current total fertility rate, which is 2.7, and bring it down to 2.1 

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, …

World Health Day: Diabetes, the modern killer

The prevalence of diabetes in adult population has nearly doubled since 1980 rising from 4.7 per cent to 8.5 per cent

Food allergies on the rise

Increase in number of cases reported across the world; prevalence rate in India could be 3 per cent

Study underlines air pollution link to increased risks of pre-term birth, birth weight and pregnancy complications

Singleton pregnancies in 2000-2015 in Kansas, US examined

Fine air particles linked with high blood pressure among teen Londoners: Study

The association was found to be stronger in girls

Institutional deliveries on the rise across most states, shows NFHS-5 report

Kerala tops the charts, north-eastern states need to buck up, says survey 

World’s first malaria vaccine will be tested in Kenya, Ghana and Malawi

At least 120,000 children in each of the three countries will receive the vaccine

Southeast Asia’s double whammy—child malnutrition and obesity

WHO/UNICEF report does a reality check on region’s 'double burden'

‘Treat severe malnutrition at home’

WHO proposes ready-to-use food. Health experts don’t agree

Poison on the plate

Study links toxins in food products to cancer and other diseases in children

Housewarning

Pesticide exposure can lead to leukaemia in children

Ringing in heaps of trouble

Food for taught

Should Karnataka expand the midday meal scheme without fine-tuning it?

Particularly vulnerable tribes: How a focus on nutrition tipped the health scale for children in remote Odisha

Better funding, community training & cultural context can improve outcomes further, say experts

5 million children died before their fifth birthday in 2021, 1.9 million stillborn: UN reports

A death of child or youth every 4.4 seconds; many could have been prevented with equitable access to high-quality healthcare