Importance:Health Minister M.R.K. Panneerselvam, at a workshop on micro nutrients in Chennai recently.

CHENNAI: Ensuring the nutritional security of children is essential for a healthy community, Health Minister M.R.K. Panneerselvam said here recently.

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Lawrence Haddad

We need to make sure nutrition is not easily neglected. And that means putting pressure on leaders throughout society to focus on nutrition.

I have just finished a trip to India to help contribute to the efforts on ending malnutrition. The politicians and media were talking about the sparkling new economic growth and development figures.

Looking for a quick way to feel lousy about yourself? Then forget the idea of a healthy diet and just eat what your body wants you to eat. Your body wants meat; your body wants fat; your body wants salt and sugar. Your body will put up with fruits and vegetables if it must, but only after all the meat, fat, salt and sugar are gone.

Jorhat, Sept.

BHUBANESWAR: Even after three decades of its launch, the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) in Orissa is yet to achieve half of its nutritional objective.

As per the latest report, the nutritional status of only 47.33 per cent children under ICDS are detected as normal as on December 31, 2009.