Food additives and child health

Dr. V Sudershan Rao

One of the byproducts of modernity is that we are getting used to comforts and convenience. We no longer want to spend time even for our most basic need–food. With a lot of processed foods flooding the market, here is what you should watch out for.

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Selling obesity

Sinchana Appachoo

This is a debate that has played out in many countries in the world–junk food advertising and child health. With India following in the footsteps of America to becoming an obese nation it is time for us to join the debate as well and take some quick action.

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Eating to live or living to eat

Shweta Mahadevan

This is a debate that has played out in many countries in the world–junk food advertising and child health. With India following in the footsteps of America to becoming an obese nation it is time for us to join the debate as well and take some quick action.

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A for Apple, B for Banana, C for Carrot …!

Seetha Anand Vaidyam

It is important to give children the right eating habits from a young age if they are to follow it all though life. Here are things you should be aware of and tell young kids to get them to eat healthy and stay healthy.

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What's cooking?

Sujata C

Food is very culture specific. Our food habits are largely a result of the community we belong to. Here is a pot pourri of foods consumed by different communities in the world, some of which are hard to digest!

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What’s cooking?

Sujata C

Food is very culture specific. Our food habits are largely a result of the community we belong to. Here is a pot pourri of foods consumed by different communities in the world, some of which are hard to digest!

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Let Popeye do the teaching!

Sriparna Tamhane

What better way to introduce a topic to kids than though cartoons–what they love the most. See how you can bring Popeye and Mickey mouse into your classrooms to teaching the kids a thing or two about nutrition.

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It’s all in the label!

Dr. GM Subba Rao

We all buy food from the supremarkets. We are all attracted by the packages the foods come in. But how many of us turn the packets to look at the back? Here are some very important facts that you need to know before your next visit to the supermarket to buy your favourite pack of chips.

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The chemistry of food

Yasmin Jayathirtha

We read a lot about food, its nutritional values, its components but to really understand what we are reading, to see if a certain food is really starchy, or to know what calories are and how many calories there are in a particular dish students can carry out simple experiments in the chemistry laboratory and find out.

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