India tops global charts for childhood diabetes and deaths: Study

Almost 40% increase in cases to 2019 from 1990 globally; largest increase in cases recorded in children aged 10 to 14 years

India has 2nd-highest number of diabetes diagnostic centres globally, new study finds

Currently, 537 million adults globally are living with diabetes, with three in four of them living in low- and middle-income countries

Breakthroughs and burdens in a century of diabetes treatment

Since the discovery of insulin, diabetes treatment has made huge advances, but the condition has grown into a global killer  

Simply Put: Childhood diabetes

How India’s sweets industry has adapted to diabetes

The link between sweets and diabetes has introduced a new challenge that sweets shops have decided to tackle head-on  

India tops global charts for childhood diabetes and deaths

Obesity and poor lifestyle, including sedentary living, could have contributed to the rise

Do you need to wash rice before cooking? Here’s the science

Washing process has been shown to rinse up to 20% of the microplastics from uncooked rice

India’s diabetes epidemic just got more grim; Lancet report reveals why

High prevalence of diabetes & lack of infrastructure in rural India could accelerate obesity, prediabetes epidemic, notes study

Half of all South Africans are overweight or obese. Warning labels on unhealthy foods help change that

Globally there’s been an increase in the availability and consumption of unhealthy food

As told to Parliament (July 21, 2023): Unseasonal rains in March 2023 ruined over 18,000 hectares of crops in Chhattisgarh

All that was discussed in the House through the day  

FSSAI has no reason ‘to not have warning labels’ on packaged foods  

With new estimates of huge burden of diet-related non-communicable diseases, FSSAI should act strong and mandate a warning label in the interest …

India won’t meet UN targets to reduce premature mortality from major non-communicable diseases: ICMR-NCDIR

NCDs account for 66 per cent of all deaths in India, of which 22 per cent were premature deaths in 2019