Health

India gets $200 million loan for nutrition mission

To improve nutritional status of 10 cr persons across 315 districts

Publication Date: 
08/05/2018
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
India, Nutrition, Children, World Bank, Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS), Health
Food Policy

Food policies and nutrition transition in Sri Lanka: historical trends, political regimes, and options for interventions

To understand the background of Sri Lanka’s current food security and nutrition challenges, this paper analyzes the political economy and policy processes that shaped the country’s food security and nutrition interventions and their outcomes.

Publication Date: 
01/05/2018
Jeevika Weerahewa, Chatura Sewwandi Wijetunga, Suresh Chandra Babu, Nihal Atapattu
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Tags:
Food Policy, Nutrition, Sri Lanka, Food Security, Consumption Patterns
Health

Collective approach needed to curb malnutrition: Marandi

Social Welfare, Women and Child Development Minister Louise Marandi addressing a programme on ‘Nutrition’ on Tuesday said that a collective approach is required to eradicate the problem of malnutri

Publication Date: 
25/04/2018
Pioneer (Ranchi)
Tags:
Jharkhand, Malnutrition, Nutrition, Ministry of Women and Child Development, Child Health, Health Care, Health
Health

Emerging liver health crisis in Kerala, an interplay of aberrant lifestyle and ‘bad’ genetics

Most people think of the liver as a digestive organ, but in reality, it engages itself in immune mechanisms to thwart infections, filters and removes toxins in food and water we drink, while playin

Publication Date: 
20/04/2018
Indian Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
WHO, India, Food Safety, Lifestyles, Diabetes, Nutrition, Health
Health

Plasma 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentration and risk of type 2 diabetes and pre-diabetes: 12-year cohort study

It has been reported that higher plasma 25-hydroxyvitamin D is associated with lower risk of type 2 diabetes. However the results to date have been mixed and no adequate data based on a cohort are available for the high end of the normal range, above approximately 32 ng/ml or 80 nmol/L.

Original Source

Publication Date: 
19/04/2018
Sue K. Park, Cedric F. Garland, Edward D. Gorham & et al
PLoS ONE
1-17
Tags:
Diabetes, Nutrition, Non Communicable Diseases, Health Effects, Research
Food Policy

Improving diets in an era of food market transformation: Challenges and opportunities for engagement between the public and private sectors

With poor diets posing a greater global health risk than air pollution, alcohol, drug and tobacco use combined, the private sector needs to play a stronger role in encouraging people to eat more nutritious food, according to a new policy brief.

Publication Date: 
18/04/2018
FAO
Tags:
Food Security, Nutrition, Obesity, Private Sector, India, Global, Public Sector
Health

Diversity of wild edible minor fruits used by the ethnic communities of Tripura, India

The present study deals with the identification, documentation and exploration of wild edible fruits consumed by different indigenous inhabitants in four districts of Tripura, viz. Khowai (forest of Tablabari, Tulsigarh and Subalsingh), West Tripura (forest of Barmura), Sipahijala and Dhalai (forest of Manu, Ambassa). Wild fruits available in the mentioned area remain one of the major seasonal food intakes and play an important role in well-balanced diet and maintain healthy living of tribal people of Tripura.

Publication Date: 
18/04/2018
Suresh Chandra Biswas, Moumita Majumdar, Subrata Das & et al
Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge
17
2
282-289
Tags:
Flora, Traditional Knowledge, Tripura, Tribals, North East, Minor Forest Produce, Nutrition, Medicinal Plants
Health

Lack of proper nutrition a key obstacle to learning for SA kids

Poor nutrition in early childhood has a number of negative consequences for people later in life, according to Professor Daniela Casale, from Wits University’s School of Economic and Business Scien

Publication Date: 
17/04/2018
News 24 (South Africa)
Tags:
Health, Nutrition, Child Health, Food Security, South Africa, Children, Africa
Health

Govt move may spur cases of malnutrition

Pune: The state government’s move to make Aadhaar linkage compulsory for all anganwadi children has left the social activists fuming, considering that almost 60% kids in Maharashtra do not have the

Publication Date: 
17/04/2018
Times Of India (Pune)
Tags:
Maharashtra, Malnutrition, Children, Nutrition, Health
Agriculture

Metabolism and prebiotics activity of anthocyanins from black rice (Oryza sativa L.) in vitro

Anthocyanins are naturally active substances. In this study, anthocyanins from black rice were obtained by membrane filtration and column chromatography separation. Five anthocyanin monomers in black rice extract were identified by HPLC-MS/MS, and the major anthocyanin monomer (cyanidin-3-glucoside, C3G) was purified by preparative HPLC (Pre-HPLC).

Original Source

Publication Date: 
09/04/2018
Yongsheng Zhu, Hanju Sun, Shudong He & et al
PLoS ONE
1-15
Tags:
Rice, Nutrition, China, Research, Plant Breeding

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