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New surveys show a sharp rise in diabetes and pre-diabetes among adolescents in Telangana, with growing obesity levels and poor physical activity. Health experts and NIN are calling for stricter controls and health taxes on sugary drinks and high-fat, high-sugar foods

Oil and sugar boards showing calorie content in common food items will soon be installed in government offices, hospitals, airports and railway stations. The NIN-led initiative aims to raise public awareness on healthy eating and reduce lifestyle diseases

The Women and Child Development Ministry has urged the States to adhere to the advisory while implementing take-home rations and hot cooked meals

The Hyderabad-based premier nutritional institution, National Institute of Nutrition has come up with Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) plan, designed to help manage and potentially even lower the blood pressure

Governor Jishnu Dev Varma inaugurated the five-day Integrated Communication & Outreach Programme ‘Nutritious Diet for All’

In yet another first, the DAB-India study also collects samples of cooked food from individual households of all Indian States to assess their micronutrient value and also to understand how many contaminants are there in what people eat. 

To be effective, front-of-pack symbols must be a part of the principal display panel and should have appropriate symbol-to-text ratio specifications.

However, the same gene is also associated with a wide spectrum of renal or kidney manifestations that eventually lead to end-stage kidney failure among individuals.

In fact, it goes a step further by advising people to also focus on other vital factors such as exercise, personal hygiene, environmental sanitation, food safety, healthcare and safe water.

Keeping up with the changing times, the dietary recommendations include specific recommendations on the amount of physical activity that one must undertake on a daily basis.

NutriAIDE, a mobile app promoting healthy and sustainable nutrition through AI-based photo recognition, food content tracking, and environmental impact assessment.

According to the developers, the mobile app is a tool that helps users to reflect on their own eating habits and enables them to transform their personal behaviour and food environment

On an average, a typical urban Indian consumes at least 100 gm of packaged food that provides 500 kilocalories per day, which is more than necessary

A majority of the employees involved in IT sector in Hyderabad are prone to haphazard lifestyle, they lack physical activity and are always exposed to extreme workplace stress.

The findings revealed that among urban adults in Telangana, 47.7 percent were obese, and 14.8 percent were overweight.

Senior NIN nutritionists have collaborated with multiple research groups across the country to meet the nutritional requirements of the first Indian astronaut crew that will be part of the Indian Human Spaceflight Programme

The findings suggest a crucial link between early exposure to BPA and the possible long-term health of the male reproductive system, the researchers say.

The study also reported that the average sitting time of these employees for more than 8 hours on a regular working day. Only 22 percent employees reached the recommended intentional physical activity duration of at least 150 minutes per week.

Dr Bhanuprakash Reddy did Postdoctoral research from Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru and Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland-USA and PhD (Biochemistry) from Osmania University.

National Institute of Nutrition has developed the ‘My Plate for the Day’ concept which will guide people towards adopting the exact proportion of diverse food groups that a typical Indian has to consume in a day