UK may ban junk food ads, should India follow?

Since India lacks regulatory framework for promotion of foods items containing high fat, salt and sugar, experts feel a similar step could prove …

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

Gopichand’s healthy choice

Gopichand is a national hero because he is the only Indian sportsperson who has publicly shunned endorsing soft drinks

India takes steps towards nutrient profiling of packaged foods

Initial survey on labels suggests that packaged food is not fit to be marketed to children 

Southeast Asia’s double whammy—child malnutrition and obesity

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

Paramedics show the way

How hundreds of villages in Bangladesh have overcome child and maternal mortality 10 years before the MDG deadline

Why three toddlers were forced to seek SC ban on firecrackers

Citing fundamental right to life, parents make their children as litigants in a first-of-its-kind PIL against the use of firecrackers during festivals

Poison on the plate

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

Vaccine units need booster shots

Health ministry orders them to resume production but offers no action plan

‘Treat severe malnutrition at home’

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

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?

UP children to be vaccinated every month against polio

Polio vaccination strategy under scanner

No fund for breastfeeding campaign

Consumed by hunger

एसओई 2021: कोरोना महामारी में जन्मे बच्चों पर 2040 तक दिखेगा असर

स्टेट ऑफ इंडियाज एनवायरमेंट 2021 रिपोर्ट में कोरोना महामारी के दौरान पैदा हुए बच्चों के भविष्य पर चिंता जताई गई है

Fruit scare

Encephalitis is not only threatening lives in Bihar, but also the livelihood of litchi farmers as unconfirmed reports link the disease to the fruit

Toxins in the womb

Organic pollutants lead to neural defects, study confirms

Toying with danger?

No Europe-wide ban on potentially dangerous chemicals used in plastic toys

Valid excuse

Troublemaking protein found

Breakthrough in fighting severe malaria among children

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Food and malnutrition