Tag: Malnutrition
ICRISAT uncovers surprising factors behind rural obesity & malnutrition: urges swift...
The study also highlights the lack of access to protein and the importance of traditional food systems, and nutrition-sensitive food supply chains
India’s weight problem – malnutrition and overweight
The latest study has found that among various malnutrition indicators, low birth weight is the largest contributor to child deaths, followed stunting, underweight and wasting...................
A fifth of adolescents obese, 10% with stunted growth in LMIC...
The study by University of Warwick examined previous studies of almost 130,000 adolescents and also found that a fifth are overweight or obese and more than 10 percent had stunted growth due to double malnutrition.................
Experts raise the alarm on malnutrition, call it ‘silent emergency’
While over 1 million children die in India due to under-nutrition related causes, the experts emphasize that the country needs a National Food and Nutrition Security Law to tackle the challenge of malnutrition............
BIBCOL develops unique remedy for acute malnutrition in children
The Ready to Use Food (RUTF) supplement with brand name BIB POSHAN, was developed with financial support from Department of Biotechnology.......
India hosts first-ever international agrobiodiversity congress
The 1st International Agrobiodiversity Congress – IAC 2016 will gather 900 delegates from 60 countries in New Delhi...
“Shrinking agriculture, its decreased GDP contribution is a global trend”
In an exclusive interaction with BioVoice eMag, Dr Prabhu L Pingali, Professor of Applied Economics and Director, Tata-Cornell Institute (TCI) spoke to Rahul Koul....
Food fortification is the govt’s answer to micronutrient malnutrition
Speaking at the National Summit on Fortification of Food, the union minister of state for health, Anupriya Patel informed that the control.........
Poor diets now pose a greater risk to health in South...
Foresight Report and the South Asian Paper shows how changing food systems and diets could affect health over the next 20 years...
South-East Asia health ministers meet in Colombo next week
Ahead of the Sixty-ninth WHO Regional Committee meeting, the health ministers of the 11 member countries of WHO.....