カテゴリー: Nutrition and development
The hard sell of ultra-processed foods in developing countries as being ‘good for you’ gives children a taste for sugar and salt that could have lasting effects on their healthThe bright red bottle of Sting, an energy drink, catches Sunita Devi’s eye w…
From children in Kabul to Taliban chiefs, the sweet, caffeine-heavy drinks are wildly popular, defying fears on nutrition They are sold outside schools, in hospital lobbies, on street corners and in every supermarket; served at wedding receptions and m…
Civil society has outperformed the state in helping to feed India’s poorest. It should be seen as ally not enemyThe highways connecting India’s overcrowded cities to the villages had not seen anything like it since the time of partition 73 years ago. H…
Exclusion from government Covid-19 relief has left many reliant on private food donations, as fears raised over protection from transmission after lockdownRasheeda Bibi has five rupees to her name. A worker in India’s sex industry, she lives in the nar…
Diets heavy on snack foods linked to undernutrition and stunting, say researchersChildren under the age of two in Nepal are getting a quarter of their calories from junk food, according to groundbreaking research that warns their diet is linked to stun…