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Mother’s education & sanitation play an important role in nutrition : Arvind Virmani

Mother’s education & sanitation play an important role in nutrition : Arvind Virmani

Rice and wheat provide just calories and they don’t give nutrition. Within the subsidised price of wheat, people should get the course grain, and then it would be better for them Malnutrition is a persistent

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Traditional food systems – beyond nutrition : Dr S D Kholkute

Traditional food systems – beyond nutrition : Dr S D Kholkute

Changing socio economic and cultural scenario, migration, educational status, popularisation of commercial modern food practices are influencing the dietary practices of the community, especially the younger generation. As a consequence, the loss of traditional food

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Will food security offer nutrition security? : Dr Vilas Ramrao Shirhatti

Will food security offer nutrition security? : Dr Vilas Ramrao Shirhatti

We live in a technologically advanced world which has adequate knowledge, intelligence, technology and natural and human resources to provide nutritional and food security to every human being including the most poor and the vulnerable.

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This is not Food Security: Dr Amol A Annadate

This is not Food Security: Dr Amol A Annadate

Mere food schemes, free cereals, fortification will never work not because they are too tangled in red tapism but because they are too centralised and designed with a tunnel vision. Measures such as food fortification

The Five Levels of Cranberry Substantiation

In my nearly 10 years as an ambassador for North American Cranberry Vacciniummacrocarpon I have traveled the world promoting the Urinary Tract Health benefits of cranberry. From a chance meeting at an industry trade show

Institute of Excellence – NIN

The National Institute of Nutrition was born in 1918 as a small beri beri enquiry unit at Coonoor. It was created by the Indian Research Fund Association under the leadership of Sir Robert McCarrison. In

Nutraceuticals, Naturals and Nutritionals-A Discovery Path from Ayurveda

"Health and desire for longevity have been inherent features in all social orders and at every stage; all human races have endeavoured to achieve these goals. Only sustainable efforts are percolated through generations, even to

Unlocking brand value

The concept of brand is not new and brands have become business assets. Unplanned brand management can lay waste to decades of work, says Sunil Shetty, Planning Services Director at Draftfcb Ulka.One of the first

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Disease Management through integrated 3 N’s (Nutrition, Nutraceuticals and Naturals)

Disease Management through integrated 3 N’s (Nutrition, Nutraceuticals and Naturals)

Disease management has articulated a new platform not just of dietary and nutrient targets, but of individual’s complex relationship to its environmental components ecological, societal and behavioral aspects in relation to chronic diseases beyond causative