The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has startedtransporting emergency food assistance to help communities in western Nepalhit by drought in an operation that is eventually expected to reach 225,000people. [click link for full article]
Whether you're partial to Oreos, Twinkies or other packaged foods, you'd be hard-pressed these days to find any that contain trans fats, the notoriously artery-clogging fats long demonized by the food police.
A VISIBLY irate Premier Nosimo Balindlela yesterday accused three senior officials of ?lying? to her about the shambolic state of the province?s School Nutrition Programme.
While West Virginia is near the top of the list in a national report card ranking school nutrition policies, there?s room for much improvement in Virginia?s cafeterias.
COLOMBO: Two thousand five hundred new public health midwives will be recruited to implement the Government's programme of the distribution of nutritious food package to pregnant mothers, said Healthcare and Nutrition Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva.
By CLARIDGE, Anna There's a price to be paid for cheap food -- and it could be people's health. A raft of leading public health specialists due to arrive in New Zealand next week say damning new research proves a link between poverty, poor nutrition and chronic disease.