nutrition
Finding nutritional food on campus remains a challenge
Too often, people prioritise their hunger over their health and wellbeing.
A way to finance childhood growth
Too poor to affect grain prices in global markets, the chronically hungry are economically invisible.
Is Bangladesh ready to face a global food crisis?
We now face the real risk of massive hunger and famine.
Where functionality and health coincide
It is no secret that an average urbanite struggles to maintain a healthy balance in their food intake. Deadlines, late dinners, and the pressure of being punctual and performing at an optimum level have always been at the top of our priorities. Such a lifestyle eventually leads to health-related issues in the long run. However, it can be minimised if we become conscious of what food we intake on a daily basis.
How to read a nutrition label (without being tricked)
Try spending a few minutes reading the underappreciated label at the back.
Fighting dengue with proper diet
Along with proper medication, the right food intake is essential in fighting dengue and ensuring quick recovery of patients. Through a balanced diet one can not only detoxify the body and improve the platelet count, but also prevent severe complications like gastrointestinal bleeding, dehydration, etc.
The health challenges for the urban poor
Bangladesh is being urbanised at a rapid pace, fuelled by rural poverty, climate change and the promise of a better economic future.
COPENHAGEN CONSENSUS / Healthier mothers for a brighter future
Providing all pregnant Bangladeshi women with iron and folic acid would decrease the risk of anaemia in mothers by 69 percent and reduce low-weight births by nearly 3 percent. The majority of the benefits would come from avoiding lifelong productivity losses that arise from low birth weight.
Editorial / Bangladesh on track for reducing stunting
It is assuring to note that Bangladesh is on course to meet the global targets for reducing the rate of stunting, low height for age among children under five.
Finding nutritional food on campus remains a challenge
Too often, people prioritise their hunger over their health and wellbeing.
A way to finance childhood growth
Too poor to affect grain prices in global markets, the chronically hungry are economically invisible.
Is Bangladesh ready to face a global food crisis?
We now face the real risk of massive hunger and famine.
Where functionality and health coincide
It is no secret that an average urbanite struggles to maintain a healthy balance in their food intake. Deadlines, late dinners, and the pressure of being punctual and performing at an optimum level have always been at the top of our priorities. Such a lifestyle eventually leads to health-related issues in the long run. However, it can be minimised if we become conscious of what food we intake on a daily basis.
How to read a nutrition label (without being tricked)
Try spending a few minutes reading the underappreciated label at the back.
Fighting dengue with proper diet
Along with proper medication, the right food intake is essential in fighting dengue and ensuring quick recovery of patients. Through a balanced diet one can not only detoxify the body and improve the platelet count, but also prevent severe complications like gastrointestinal bleeding, dehydration, etc.
The health challenges for the urban poor
Bangladesh is being urbanised at a rapid pace, fuelled by rural poverty, climate change and the promise of a better economic future.
Healthier mothers for a brighter future
Providing all pregnant Bangladeshi women with iron and folic acid would decrease the risk of anaemia in mothers by 69 percent and reduce low-weight births by nearly 3 percent. The majority of the benefits would come from avoiding lifelong productivity losses that arise from low birth weight.
Bangladesh on track for reducing stunting
It is assuring to note that Bangladesh is on course to meet the global targets for reducing the rate of stunting, low height for age among children under five.
US Dietary guidelines for 2015 to lift restriction on fats, except for saturated kind
The 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC) is likely to recommend lifting its previous restrictions on most fats as a new report signals change may be afoot.
