The topmost priority in the five-step agenda, laid down by the West Bengal government and UNICEF to address malnutrition, is empowering families, children and young people...
India continues to perform poorly in various international health index reports by recording most malnutrition and anaemia cases and deaths, here is the Swasth report of the country
As rates of obesity continue to grow worldwide, scientists have begun to suspect that excess weight might lead to or exacerbate other causes of death besides...
Obesity is increasing at a 2.3 per cent rate each year among school-aged children, which is unacceptably high and indicates worrisome prospects for the next generation's...
Here are the key findings from the India State-Level Disease Burden Initiative’s report on disease burden of child and maternal malnutrition and trends in the states...
According to UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), Globalisation, urbanisation and growth in income are major reasons behind the diet shift as people find less time...
In a bid to prevent deaths due to starvation and malnutrition, the Delhi High Court has directed the central and the Delhi government to issue ration...
The report, Food Systems at Risk, presented to the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome, warned that the problem of poor nutrition will only get...
The proposed Nutrition Garden in schools would help in addressing issues such as malnutrition and micronutrient deficiencies among school children, says Ministry of Human Resource Development
'The State of the World's Children 2019’ a report by UNICEF states that every second child below the age of five in India is affected by...
Banas Dairy in Gujarat’s Banaskantha District are working with UNICEF to educate the farmers' families about nutrition and cares to be taken during adolescent age, pregnancy...
The Global Hunger Index report 2019 ranks India at 102 out of 117 countries and states that it has the highest wasting rate of any country...