blog List

Following India’s poor ranking in the world hunger index last year, experts have urged the government to come up with a comprehensive nutritional policy to alleviate diet-related deaths in the country. A recent study by the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), University of...

You’ve probably read about it in newspapers and seen it on the news: the number of children with obesity has continued to rise over the past two decades. You may wonder: Why are doctors and scientists troubled by this trend? And as parents or other concerned adults, you may ask: What steps can we...

Protein is the building block of life. A lot of people thinks that they are eating enough protein to meet daily requirements but when we do dietary recall, their protein intake is substantially missing. A child requires 1gprotein/kg body weight. For adults, the requirement is 1.5g/kg body weight...

We Indians are known for our indulgent lifestyles when it comes to food and rightfully so, right? While the classic Indian dishes are best served and relished a little too spicy and with a little too oil or butter, the new age has very creatively adapted to a diet that is as Indian as it gets in...

The U.S. National Library of Medicine says proteins are large, complex molecules that play many critical roles in the body – accounting for the structure, function, and regulation of the body’s tissues and organs. Composed of hundreds or thousands of smaller units called amino acids, proteins...