20% People Globally Are Fat: Study

New Delhi: There are more overweight or obese people, 904 million adults, in the developing countries than the developed world, about 557 million. Similarly, more than 30 million overweight children live in the developing world compared to just 10 million in the developed countries. Over one out of every five persons in the world is obese. The number of obese people is close to being double the estimated number of persons going hungry to bed, over 800 million.

Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala and Tripura are ahead of Bihar

Despite facing nationwide criticism over death of 23 children after having the midday meal last year, Bihar now secured the fifth position among best performing states.

According to a study, the use of toilets by children in rural areas is less than 12 percent as against 47 percent in urban areas.

“Obesity in children is increasingly becoming a serious problem in the country due to intake of junk foods and high calories.” This was observed by Dr Chandra Sekhar Das, a well–known child special

Children below five years of age in Alwar and Bharatpur have a reason to cheer. They will get five doses of polio drops in five rounds this current year while earlier the health department administered them six doses in six rounds in a year.

Since, Alwar and Bharatpur are two high-risk districts in the state, the health department had to administer four extra doses of polio drops in comparison to other districts in the state

World Food Programme (WFP) has supplied relief and food assistance to approximately 972,000 returnees and displaced persons in six districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) province and four agencies o

The Centre has finally approved the rollout of the Multi-sectoral Nutrition Programme to address the problems of maternal and child under-nutrition in the country.

The programme, recommended by the Prime Minister’s National Council on India’s Nutrition Challenges in 2010, will be implemented in 200 high-burden districts in two phases at an estimated cost of Rs. 1,213.19 crore.