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Is The School Bag Burden Literally Deforming India's Future? Here's What Data And Doctors Say
School bags weighing far more than the recommended 10% of body weight are causing posture issues, chronic pain and long-term spinal risks in Indian students. New government data, NEP 2020 reforms and orthopaedic experts reveal the true scale of the b
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Pregnancy May Accelerate Biological Ageing In Young Women, Says Study
The study's author said, "Strong medical, social and nutritional support for new moms is always the best policy over the long run," he said.
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Apple Starts Rolling Out Privacy Warnings on the App Store, Promises a Manual Review
Apple is updating its privacy policy and apps will now come with a ‘nutritional label’ but Apple’s not talking much about what it’ll do in case an app does not actually declare everything.
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NEP's Nutritious Breakfast Idea For School Children A Welcome Step: Vice-President
NEP 2020: The Centre accorded the highest priority for health and nutrition and the latest move to provide nutritious breakfast to school children announced in the new National Education Policy 2020 is a welcome step, Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu said on Friday.
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Is Your Breakfast Cereal Actually Healthy? Truth Lies In Nutrition Labels
A recent paper published in the Journal of Public Policy & Marketing examined the claims printed on breakfast cereal boxes and concluded that the correlation between claims and the action nutritional facts of these cereals was almost non-existent or zero.
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A $6 Billion China Startup Wants To Be The Amazon Of Health Care
As soon as you're diagnosed as diabetic, ads for treatments show up on social feeds. You get alerts on health supplements, maybe nutrition tips. Prompts on insurance policies pop up on your phone.
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PMO Nod For National Policy For Women Awaited, Says Maneka Gandhi
Union Minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Gandhi on Monday said the draft National Policy for Women (NPW), which aims to ensure health, food security and nutrition to women, is awaiting nod by the PMO, but her Ministry could still implement it in phases.
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First-Ever Nutrition Policy Soon For Severe Acute Malnourished Children
In a first, the government will soon release a nutrition policy for Severe Acute Malnourished (SAM) children, a senior official said today.
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Nutrition As The Main Pillar To A Healthy And Wealthy India
Countries like India are in a phase of transition where the public policy challenges presented by overnutrition are in addition to those posed by undernutrition.There is need for concerted action across both nutrition specific and nutrition sensitive interventions to accelerate progress on all the nutrition-related SDGs.
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Facing Flak From Court, Devendra Fadnavis Seeks Report On Nutrition Policy
After facing flak from the Supreme Court for its "lack of concern" over the problem of malnutrition in Maharashtra's tribal areas, the state government swung into action and held a meeting, chaired by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, to decide on a comprehensive nutrition policy.
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Too Fat, Too Thin - Report Finds Malnutrition Fuels Disease Worldwide
A third of people worldwide are either undernourished or overweight, driving increasing rates of disease and piling pressure on health services, a global report showed today.
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How PM Modi's Electricity Scheme Has Changed This Village
Ram Kishore searched long and hard to find a suitable wife for his son, but his efforts only paid off when electricity finally came to his village this year. Now he is all smiles as he sits under a glowing light bulb in his single-room home in Anandpur village. Just 145 miles from the capital New Delhi, it has never had electricity – until now. ...
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Child Development: Kerala Tops, Gujarat Flops, Bihar Hops
Children have been out of focus in recent debates on public policy in India. Even when budget cuts threaten to undermine child nutrition programmes, the mainstream media barely takes notice.
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Assam's boat clinics carry health services and hope for children
The successive waves of flood in Assam this year have left millions of children fighting illness and poor nutrition, and thousands displaced. And for those inhabiting remote islands in the middle of Brahmaputra River, these boat clinics run by the Centre for North East Studies and Policy Research and supported by the National Rural Health Mission (...
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Kerala to formulate nutrition policy: Minister
Kerala government would soon formulate a 'nutrition policy' to reduce the number of people getting affected by lifestyle diseases, Health Minister V S Sivakumar said on Tuesday.
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Is The School Bag Burden Literally Deforming India's Future? Here's What Data And Doctors Say
School bags weighing far more than the recommended 10% of body weight are causing posture issues, chronic pain and long-term spinal risks in Indian students. New government data, NEP 2020 reforms and orthopaedic experts reveal the true scale of the b
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Pregnancy May Accelerate Biological Ageing In Young Women, Says Study
The study's author said, "Strong medical, social and nutritional support for new moms is always the best policy over the long run," he said.
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Apple Starts Rolling Out Privacy Warnings on the App Store, Promises a Manual Review
Apple is updating its privacy policy and apps will now come with a ‘nutritional label’ but Apple’s not talking much about what it’ll do in case an app does not actually declare everything.
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NEP's Nutritious Breakfast Idea For School Children A Welcome Step: Vice-President
NEP 2020: The Centre accorded the highest priority for health and nutrition and the latest move to provide nutritious breakfast to school children announced in the new National Education Policy 2020 is a welcome step, Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu said on Friday.
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Is Your Breakfast Cereal Actually Healthy? Truth Lies In Nutrition Labels
A recent paper published in the Journal of Public Policy & Marketing examined the claims printed on breakfast cereal boxes and concluded that the correlation between claims and the action nutritional facts of these cereals was almost non-existent or zero.
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A $6 Billion China Startup Wants To Be The Amazon Of Health Care
As soon as you're diagnosed as diabetic, ads for treatments show up on social feeds. You get alerts on health supplements, maybe nutrition tips. Prompts on insurance policies pop up on your phone.
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PMO Nod For National Policy For Women Awaited, Says Maneka Gandhi
Union Minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Gandhi on Monday said the draft National Policy for Women (NPW), which aims to ensure health, food security and nutrition to women, is awaiting nod by the PMO, but her Ministry could still implement it in phases.
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First-Ever Nutrition Policy Soon For Severe Acute Malnourished Children
In a first, the government will soon release a nutrition policy for Severe Acute Malnourished (SAM) children, a senior official said today.
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Nutrition As The Main Pillar To A Healthy And Wealthy India
Countries like India are in a phase of transition where the public policy challenges presented by overnutrition are in addition to those posed by undernutrition.There is need for concerted action across both nutrition specific and nutrition sensitive interventions to accelerate progress on all the nutrition-related SDGs.
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Facing Flak From Court, Devendra Fadnavis Seeks Report On Nutrition Policy
After facing flak from the Supreme Court for its "lack of concern" over the problem of malnutrition in Maharashtra's tribal areas, the state government swung into action and held a meeting, chaired by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, to decide on a comprehensive nutrition policy.
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Too Fat, Too Thin - Report Finds Malnutrition Fuels Disease Worldwide
A third of people worldwide are either undernourished or overweight, driving increasing rates of disease and piling pressure on health services, a global report showed today.
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How PM Modi's Electricity Scheme Has Changed This Village
Ram Kishore searched long and hard to find a suitable wife for his son, but his efforts only paid off when electricity finally came to his village this year. Now he is all smiles as he sits under a glowing light bulb in his single-room home in Anandpur village. Just 145 miles from the capital New Delhi, it has never had electricity – until now. ...
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Child Development: Kerala Tops, Gujarat Flops, Bihar Hops
Children have been out of focus in recent debates on public policy in India. Even when budget cuts threaten to undermine child nutrition programmes, the mainstream media barely takes notice.
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Assam's boat clinics carry health services and hope for children
The successive waves of flood in Assam this year have left millions of children fighting illness and poor nutrition, and thousands displaced. And for those inhabiting remote islands in the middle of Brahmaputra River, these boat clinics run by the Centre for North East Studies and Policy Research and supported by the National Rural Health Mission (...
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Kerala to formulate nutrition policy: Minister
Kerala government would soon formulate a 'nutrition policy' to reduce the number of people getting affected by lifestyle diseases, Health Minister V S Sivakumar said on Tuesday.
