Slimmer returns

Wild and spicy

Tracing the essential

When it comes to selenium, vegetarians may be deficient  

Food basket in danger

Latest data suggests a decline in the nutritional quality of food. What is stripping our food of nutrients? Can authorities cope with the challenge?

Healthy yoghurt

A new kind of fibre-rich yoghurt not only tickles the gourmet palates, but also promises boosts to healthcare

Food for thought

Nutrition in the Nineties -- Policy Issues Edited by Margaret R Biswas and Mamdouh Gabr Publisher: Oxford University Press Price: Not stated

Panacea?

Vitamin E gives protection against heart disease and slows the ageing process, among other benefits

A pinch of salt, anyone?

If you are health-conscious, you will politely decline the offer. But what do the experts have to say?

Peanut profits

The leaves of groundnut plants are ideal forage for cattle

Memory loss by inches

Dieting anxiety could reduce memory instead of calories

HEALTH OF THE NATION

Death-watch

Oil boom

CHINA

Healthy idea

But a poor way to bell the malnutrition cat

'Label nutrition value of all food products'

Health ministry body proposes

Grow your vegetables

Amol Kalan Paschim, a nutrition-secure village

Fungal wand

How to get maximum out of antioxidants in soy

Fruity twist to grandma's tale

The country fig can pass off as any other wild fruit. Little can one guess it has a cluster of fibrous flowers inside, loaded with prebiotic …

For the love of gond

How an edible gum works wonders for the taste buds as well as health, explains Pooja Singh

Protein - rich algae fatten kids

A noon meal food supplement consisting of a blue-green algae was provided to schoolchildren on a trial basis in Pudukottai district, with …

Ruminating rural Raj

FOOD SECURITY AND PANCHAYATI RAJ·Edited by Pradeep Chaturvedi· Concept Publishing Company, New Delhi, 1997·Price Rs 400

Baby fat is out

Researchers have concluded that high-fat diets for infants might have an adverse efteq on their later lives

Affairs of the heart

Not relying purely on preventive measures is being considered a better strategy for heart patients

Down with iron

Evidence indicts excess of iron in the body as reason for coronary diseases and the growth of latent cancers