-Down to Earth Claim by GlaxoSmithKline that makes the milk supplement harps only on one aspect of study, which incidentally is funded by another multinational-Nestle A Horlicks advertisement that harps on how milk loses nutrients upon boiling in order to promote the milk supplement does not appear to be based on independent research. It turns out that one of the studies cited by the makers of Horlicks has been funded by Nestle...

-The Business Standard The food security Act's provision for millets to every household is a magic bullet to attack malNutrition The food security Act has sought to address a Nutritional imbalance in the public distribution system (PDS). The Act, by providing for a kg of millet per person at Rs 1/kg, would be a big step towards filling a wide gap in Nutrition caused by the popularisation of cereals at the cost of...

-University of Oxford Babies in a rural area of India are less likely to suffer from acute malNutrition where their families are taking part in a job-guarantee programme to provide work with a guaranteed wage, an Oxford University study has found. However, the Indian government programme appears to have no effect on long-term malNutrition. While wages earned through the scheme helped families avoid starvation when seasonal agricultural jobs were in short supply, many...

-Economic and Political Weekly A comparison of the consumption expenditure and associated Nutritional intake data for 2009-10 with that of 2004-05 shows worsening poverty in terms of the percentage of people unable to reach the minimum required calories energy intake through their monthly spending on all goods and services. This result must be seen in the context of neo-liberal policy, the financial crisis and consequent global recession affecting export production, the...

-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Following recommendations of the Prime Minister's National Council on India's Nutrition challenges, the women and child development (WCD) ministry has proposed a multi-sectoral Nutrition programme to be implemented as a special intervention in 200 high burden districts across the country with an aim to reduce child under-Nutrition and reduction in levels of anemia among young children, adolescent girls and women. The Rs 1,213 crore programme...