-The Telegraph Bhubaneswar: The Naveen Patnaik government has plans to spice up the midday meal platter by serving fish that officials say will push up its nutritional quotient. The move, if implemented, will be in accordance with the recommendations of the Odisha State Food Commission that had submitted its report to the government last month. The commission's report had suggested measures required to strengthen the nutritional content of food served at schools and...

-The Telegraph New Delhi: India is set to host this weekend a quadrennial global conference on Adolescent health that will discuss self-harm, substance abuse, obesity and risk-taking behaviour on the Internet among other risks to the health of young people. About a 1,000 delegates, including public health experts, paediatricians, mental health experts, and health policy-makers, are expected to attend the eleventh World Congress on Adolescent health, a three-day conference that opens here...

-The Indian Express Global study ranks India 100th of 119 counties, worse than Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka. India ranks a low 100th out of 119 countries on the Global Hunger Index (GHI) released Thursday. On the GHI severity scale, India is at the high end of the “serious” category, owing mainly to the fact that one in every five children under age 5 is “wasted” (low weight for height). With 21% of...

-The Times of India MUMBAI: In another five years, the number of obese children in the world will outnumber the malnourished ones. A report by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and Imperial College London, published in medical journal 'The Lancet', stated on Wednesday that obesity rates among the world's children and adolescents increased from less than 1% in 1975 to nearly 6% in girls and nearly 8% in boys in 2016. India, however,...

-The New Indian Express NEW DELHI: The Centre has decided to invest an additional Rs 12,000 crore in next three years for the nutrition of pregnant and lactating women and children in the age group of 0-6 years as the cabinet Wednesday approved an increase of cost norms for supplementary nutrition provided in anganwadis and for adolescent girls. As per the new norms, for children below 6 years, the money has been...