According to a World Bank expert, obesity could damage economic output as severely as malnutrition in the poorest countries. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has estimated that obesity has already tripled in the last two decades and says by 2010, one in ten children and one in five adults will be obese in Europe and Central Asia, unless action is taken soon.Dr. Meera Shekar, who is a se...Thursday, 16-Nov-2006 / [ Details... ]
China's one-child-per-family policy has prevented 400 million births, Zhang Weiqing, director of China's National Population and Family Planning Commission, said on Wednesday, Xinhua/China Daily reports (Xinhua/China Daily, 11/9). T...Tuesday, 14-Nov-2006 / [ Details... ]
852 million people worldwide are suffering from hunger or malnutrition, 18 million more than in 1995-1997 (FAO, 2004). While the number has fallen in India and China, it is continuing to grow in Africa, particularly in dryland zones. What lies behind this persistent famine in the region? This is the question being asked by the AIDA (Agricultural Innovation in Dryland Africa) international project, funded by the European Union and coordinated by CIRAD...Tuesday, 6-Feb-2007 / [ Details... ]
Every year, the Food and Drug Administration issues dozens of food-related recalls, withdrawals and advisories. But few receive the attention that the advisory regarding E.coli-contaminated spinach received in September 2006. The broad scale of the resulting recall and related media attention provided a unique opportunity for researchers at the Rutgers Food Policy Institute (FPI) to study the U.S. food recall system. The results o...Tuesday, 6-Feb-2007 / [ Details... ]
A nonprofit consumer watchdog group the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) is taking soft drinks giants Coca-Cola and Nestle to court for making fraudulent claims about a new drink.The marketing and labeling for the new drink Enviga, an artificially sweetened green tea soft drink, is touting the drink as a "calorie burner" and a weight-loss aid.According to the hype by the manufacturers Enviga has "negative calories" and ca...Monday, 5-Feb-2007 / [ Details... ]
According to a new report millions of people in Britain are so stressed out that they are turning to alcohol to ease the pressure.The report by the charity group the Samaritans says as many as five million people in the country are completely stressed out and a third of the work force is so stressed out by their job that their sleep is affected and many resort to drink as a means of relaxing. Half a million people said work-related stress was making them physically ill and one in five sai...Thursday, 1-Feb-2007 / [ Details... ]
Home safety education, especially with free or low-cost equipment such as smoke detectors thrown in, can make a family's home significantly safer, according to a new review of recent studies. However, there isn't enough evidence yet to know whether these home improvements lead to fewer child injuries, say researchers led by Dr. Denise Kendrick of the University of Nottingham in London.The findings suggest that pediatricians should offer safety education and "access to free, low-cost or di...Tuesday, 30-Jan-2007 / [ Details... ]
Money cannot buy you happiness, according to new research from the University of Ulster.The most important sources of happiness are good health and freedom from financial worries, Professor Vani Borooah found.He studied more than 3,000 interviews from the Poverty and Social Exclusion in Northern Ireland survey and the results of his research were published recently in the Journal of Happiness Studies.Professor Borooah said the res...Monday, 29-Jan-2007 / [ Details... ]
Over 1.5 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Iraq, most with urgent needs in the most basic services, continue to present numerous challenges for the Iraqi national authorities and the international community. Data collected by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in January 2006 revealed almost 1.2 million individuals had been displaced over the past several decades, most of them living in public buildings, camps or wi...Sunday, 28-Jan-2007 / [ Details... ]
Community groups, not medical providers, "are in the best position to spread health information and push for prevention among immigrants," according to experts, the AP/Washington Times reports. According to the AP/Times, most immigrants "come from countries where they are used to walking everywhere and where eating on the go means mostly fruit ...Tuesday, 23-Jan-2007 / [ Details... ]
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