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Cereal offenders -Ila Patnaik

-The Indian Express Food inflation owes largely to agricultural markets being regulated by outdated laws. The RBI governor, Raghuram Rajan, has a difficult task this week. He has to decide whether to keep interest rates constant or raise them - bearing in mind the possible taper of the US Fed's bond buying programme, a decline in industrial production and a rise in inflation. The sharp increase in consumer price-based inflation, to more...

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Diabetes hits young women due to sedentary lifestyle: Study

-PTI Mumbai: Younger women in the age bracket of 30-35 years are prone to diabetes because of sedentary lifestyle and wrong eating habits, according to a study. Population in Western India tends to eat fried food and no fruits, due to which several people are seen to be at higher risk of diabetes and obesity. Diabetes risk levels have been observed to be high among men and women in the age bracket of...

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FAO expects more balanced food markets, less price volatility

-FAO Rome: Food commodity markets are becoming more balanced and less price volatile than in recent years thanks to improved supplies and a recovery in global inventories of cereals, according to FAO's Food Outlook report published today. "The prices for most basic food commodities have declined over the past few months. This relates to production increases and the expectation that in the current season, we will have more abundant supplies, more export...

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Food prices expected to be less volatile than in recent years, says UN agency

-The United Nations Improved supplies and a recovery in global inventories of cereals has led to less price volatility than in recent years, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said today, adding that food prices over the past month rose slightly, driven by higher sugar prices. "The prices for most basic food commodities have declined over the past few months. This relates to production increases and the expectation that in...

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Debate on rice: Make informed nutritional choices to gain maximum benefit from the food grain-Nandita Iyer

-The Economic Times It's hard to think of a cereal that is more intrinsic to Indian culture than rice. It journeys with us for a whole lifetime - with the first solid food a baby is traditionally fed during the annaprashan ceremony to sprinkling it over a deceased person's mouth during the last rites. A vast majority of the Indian population eats rice as its staple grain, similar to Asian countries...

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