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Saturday, April 27, 2024
TopicBaby food

Topic: Baby food

Want your children to eat healthier? Start by consuming a better diet yourself, US study says

Researchers say that parents tend to choose unhealthy foods for themselves after choosing a healthy meal for their young children. This dynamic isn't ideal.

Govt shoots off letters to doctors, seeks answer on seminars ‘sponsored’ by baby-food makers

In a separate letter to the Women & Child Development Ministry, the Ministry of Health has said the matter needs to be examined and ‘necessary actions’ taken.

Global firms Abbott, Danone under Modi govt lens again for breaking law to promote baby food

Complaint by NGO Breastfeeding Promotion Network of India has accused Abbott and Danone of violating Infant Milk Substitutes, Feeding Bottles and Infant Foods Act.

Abbott Nutrition, Danone Nutricia under govt lens for ‘breaking law to sell baby food’

Both Abbott and Danone have denied the allegations, claiming they had ‘zero tolerance’ for unethical practices.  

Want babies to be healthy? Let them be in charge of what they eat

Letting babies play with food, feeling its texture and learning how it tastes is all part of their development, no matter how messy.

New discovery shows prehistoric parents used baby bottles & cow’s milk 5,000 years ago

Archaeologists have suggested that these objects were used to feed infants, but they might also have fed the sick or elderly.

Nestlé in trouble for ‘influencing doctors to prescribe baby food’ in India

Swiss food giant Nestlé only recently suffered another setback when the Supreme Court revived a class-action suit against it over Maggi instant noodles.

On Camera

Indira, Manmohan, Modi, all raised income inequality. Until Hindu fears took the driving seat

The issue of inequality has assumed the blazing limelight at a time when inequality in India is said to be higher than it was in the British Raj. It's a ripe situation for half-truths and incendiary statements.

Foreign policy resonating among more Indians in 2nd & 3rd tier towns of India, says EAM Jaishankar

Speaking at launch of economist Surjit Bhalla’s book, S Jaishankar also highlights Gen Z’s engagement with ‘reel culture’, which has 'promoted awareness, created interest in many subjects'.

Germany removes restrictions, India can now buy small arms from its firms

Germany’s erstwhile Christian Democratic Union govt, led by Angela Merkel, prevented sale of small arms to police forces in states they perceived had ‘bad human rights record’.

Frontrunner is letting the challenger define this poll campaign. Modi still hasn’t found a big theme

A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.