With more than Rs. 370 crore, West Singhbhum DMF Trust should prioritize reducing child mortality, improving nutrition, healthcare and providing sustainable livelihood
Judgement of the Junk Food Case
Report on Food Labelling, Claims and Advertisements
Pullela Gopichand is a national hero, but not just because he has pains takingly coached two badminton Olympic medalists–first Saina Nehwal and now P V Sindhu.
Food for nutrition, nature and livelihood
What societies eat reflects their position on the modernity trajectory. Poorer countries have health problems because of lack of food. Then as people get rich, they end up losing the health advantage of food availability. They eat processed food that is high in salt, sugar and fat, which make them obese and ill. It is only when societies get very rich that they rediscover the benefits of eating real food and value sustainability.
CSE welcomes Delhi High Court order on junk food
Delhi High Court orders to regulate junk food consumption among school children across India. Asks the food authority to enforce its
Delhi High Court asks for detailed response on the case on banning junk food in schools
CSE welcomes the court’s directive in the 2010 PIL filed by Uday Foundation.
Junk games and schoolchildren
“There is nothing called junk food. The problem with obesity lies with children who do not exercise enough. What is needed is for them to run and jump, and to do this they need to consume high-calorie food. So, food high in salt, sugar and fat is good for them.” This is what was argued vehemently and rudely by representatives of the food industry in the committee, set up under directions from the Delhi High Court to frame guidelines for junk food in the country.
What it takes to deliver midday meal
The tragic loss of 23 young lives because of contaminated food in a Bihar school is unacceptable. But it is also a fact that the Mid Day Meal Scheme, under which cooked food is compulsorily provided to children in government schools, is too important and critical to give up on. The only questions that matter are: why does the scheme not work as well as it should and what can be done to fix it?
More to junk food than meets the eye
Junk food is junk by its very definition. But how bad is it and what is it that companies do not tell people about this food? This is what the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) laboratory checked. The results were both predictable and alarming. What was equally predictable was the response of big food companies and their spokespersons—denials and dismissals. But they are missing the point.
High Risk of 'Energy Drinks'- Journal of American Medical Association
THE FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION (FDA) Announcement on November 17, 2010, that caffeineis an unsafe food additive to alcoholic beverages will effectively make several “premixed” alcoholic energy drinks prohibited for sale in the United States.
Control your food. It is your business
Our control over our food and our health requires inventive institutional reordering and new ideas about the way food regulations work.