In 2011-2012, 21.9% of the total Indian population fell below the poverty line. Considering how populated India is, 21.9% encompasses a lot of people. In 2011-2012, 21.9% of the total Indian ...

A comprehensive new systematic review published in The Journal of Nutrition provides the latest evidence that large-scale food fortification is a highly cost-effective intervention for reducing global ...

By Chioma Obinna The Federal Government, food industry players, and nutrition stakeholders on Tuesday intensified efforts to ...

Geneva — Large-scale food fortification—adding essential vitamins and minerals to staple foods like flour, rice, oil, and salt—currently prevents approximately 7 billion nutrient gaps* worldwide each ...

Malnutrition is one of the major issues concerning the world population, particularly in developing countries. It accounts for an estimated one-third of childhood deaths. Most adults too are deprived ...

If nutrition had a World Series, iron would never make the playoffs. Vitamin A scores home runs for preventing childhood blindness. Folic acid knocks it out of the park by preventing devastating birth ...

The Global Hunger Index (GHI) report 2020 placed India at the 94th position out of 107 nations from where sizeable data was available. While GHI considers several other aspects, the percentage of the ...

akistan is currently facing a severe malnutrition crisis, with around half of the children under the age of five being stunted, as revealed by the National Nutrition Survey in 2018 ...