Food for thought

Iron cooking vessels help combat iron deficiency

Salt of the earth

Bombay HC stays Centre's notification on iodised salt

Food than pills is the best source for iron

Activists urge FSSAI to reconsider planned fortification of rice, oil

Instead of food fortification, the food regulator needed to promote organically grown, biodiverse food for people, ASHA said

Sure cure: how to tackle India's undernutrition crisis in 10 steps

The finance ministry and the planning department can play an overarching role by ensuring health programmes get sufficient resources

Bad food

Rural people can now get anganwadis on demand

Anaemia rampant in women in Bageshwar

National Family Health Survey out

Give native knowledge its due place

ICDS gets packaged food for the malnourished

Vitamin D complex

When sunlight falls on the skin, it forms an essential nutrient, vitamin D. For people in India, which has an average of 300 clear sunny days in …

Food processing industry takes a toll on country's health

Eating at home isn’t the in thing anymore. Hanging out is hip, especially in the mushrooming fast food joints that blister the skylines of …

Meaty tales of vegetarian India

Indians are eating more meat and enjoying it. Higher incomes, global food chains and a vast population of young people indifferent to religious …