Cardiovascular risk factors start early, track through the young age and manifest in middle age in most societies. The authors conducted epidemiological studies to determine prevalence and age-specific trends in cardiovascular risk factors among adolescent and young urban Asian Indians.

Staples such as cassava on which millions of people depend become more toxic and produce much smaller yields in a world with higher carbon dioxide levels and more drought, Australian scientists say.

Capparis spinosa (Capparidaceae)

Techniques to improve the nutritional content and processing of crops are better spread using video, suggests a programme in Benin.

Talking Cash
* Swarnajayanti Gram Swarojgar: Self-employment through a mix of subsidy and bank credit.
* NREGS: Wages deposited in bank/post office according to employment days. Indira Awas: Rs 35,000 given in cash instalments to build a house.
* Janani Swasth: Cash to mother on discharge from hospital post-delivery.

Meal times are on their way out "YOU are what you eat." In no time in history does this aphorism hold more grain than now. At times, ours seems to be a nutrition-obsessed civilization. In supermarkets, especially in middle-class neighbourhoods, buying food has become like conducting a scientific experiment. Individuals spend hours looking at food packet labels

The Burmese people are a great exponent of slow food

Since Independence, an era marked largely by limited income and growth, the Government of India has been pursuing its policies for economic welfare with reference to a nutrition-based
subsistence norm. The concept and method of estimating poverty has come in for criticism in recent years in the context of economic policy reforms based on targeted policy interventions;

Food security refers to a situation that exists when all people at all times, have physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life. In order to provide food security to all citizens of the country especially the BPL households, it is proposed to enact a National Food Security Act.

School feeding is common in Africa and widely recognised as beneficial for both the physical and mental development of the children. However, mainly due to the sharp increase of food prices, many parents are no longer able to pay for their children

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