There is something not-so-comical about our comic channels. A recent study says Nickelodeon, the popular entertainment channel, is spreading junk food among kids through its advertisements. Center

Childhood obesity has become a major societal concern. Rates of obesity among preschool and school-age children have more than doubled in the past three decades: 14% of 2- to 5-year-olds and 19% of 6- to 11-year olds are obese (Ogden et al. 2006; Ogden et al. 2002). The increased rates of obesity have become a public health concern because obesity is associated with chronic disease and adverse health outcomes (Institute of Medicine 2005).

Everyday as the evening settles, a 2-km stretch in Govindpuri comes alive. Food vendors line streets of this resettlement colony in the outskirts of posh South Delhi, trying to attract workers

A UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) regional workshop on street food in Asia, held in Djakarta, Indonesia, in 1986, tried to define street food. It described a wide range of ready-to-eat food and beverages sold and sometimes prepared in public places, notably by the roadside. It stated that like fast food, the final preparation of street food occurs when the customer orders the meal.

In November last year, Brazil's National Health Monitoring Agency launched a public debate on regulations that would ban radio and tv advertising for soft drinks and foods with sugar, saturated fat

If all this while you have been fretting about saturated fats and lipo-I proteins, here is one more health I scare: trans fats. These are the I cheap, chemically-treated fats the

Two years have elapsed since who passed its global strategy

We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine gun. George Orwell in his 1937 novel The Road to Wigan Pier

Seventy years down the line, Orwell could not have been more correct.

A former engineer at DuPont has claimed that for two decades the chemicals company concealed test results showing leaching of toxic chemicals from a paper coating used to give grease resistance to

Less is being spent on food but popularity of junk food is growing

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