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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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NutriAIDE, a mobile app promoting healthy and sustainable nutrition through AI-based photo recognition, food content tracking, and environmental impact assessment.
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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
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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
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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.
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The findings revealed that among urban adults in Telangana, 47.7 percent were obese, and 14.8 percent were overweight.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Dr Avula Laxmaiah.
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Hyderabad: Hyderabad-based National Institute of Nutrition (NIN) is amongst the 75 prestigious centres chosen from across the country to host the National Science Week Festival between February 22 and 28. Being organised as part of the 75th year of Independence – ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’, it is being led by the Ministry of Culture and […]
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The researchers suggested that it was time to revise the mega-dosing of vitamin A and consider a targeted State-based vitamin A supplementation (VAS) programme
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Hyderabad: The ICMR-National Institute of Nutrition has launched an online e-survey to assess the impact of abundance of food and nutrition-related information on web search behaviors, nutrition related knowledge, attitude and practices as well as real and perceived food scares among the people during the Covid-19 pandemic. An NIN press release said that during the […]
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Nagula Gangaram, popularly known as ‘Chinni Krishnudu’ is the proud owner of a ‘Grain Bank’ of mind-boggling 110 varieties of paddy