Tag: Junk Food

Ban Fast Food Advertisements and Hike Taxes on Them: FSSAI

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Your love and hate relationship with junk food may now get a new twist. Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has recommended additional tax on processed food and sugar-sweetened beverages, and also called for a blanket ban on advertising of junk foods and beverages on children’s channels and content for children across television, websites and social media. While we are all aware about the ill-effects of junk food for our health, yet it doesn’t stop us from getting those food products to our homes and indulging, even if…

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Children won’t get pizza, burgers, vada pav in Maharashtra school canteens

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By Puja Pednekar Students in city schools will not be able to indulge in deep-fried vada pavs or cheesy burgers anymore. In a first, the Maharashtra government on Monday imposed an official ban over selling and serving foods high in fats, sugar and salt (HFSS) in school canteens. Fried foods, pizzas, burgers, carbonated drinks and all kinds of sweets, which have been freely available in schools so far, will now be prohibited. But this does not stop children from carrying junk food in their lunch boxes. Although the Delhi high…

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Care during Summer Heat

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The summer heat is expected to go beyond 40 degree Please avoid late night dinners for yourself and your family It puts a heavy strain on the heart, liver,brain and kidneys Please strictly avoid the following foods in lunch and mainly dinner for this few months of summer, it’s better to sleep a bit hungry than to risk any sudden health disorder   Tur dal, maida foods, white chana, chole chana, cooked cabbage, cauliflower,  fermented foods like idli or dosage etc, oily cooked foods, frozen cheese, cold drinks, frozen salads,…

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Urine test reveals what you really eat

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  By James Gallagher   A urine test that can reveal how healthy your meals are has been developed by UK scientists. They think it could be used to improve nutritional advice or in weight loss because people are notoriously bad at recording their own eating habits. The test, detailed in the Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology, detects chemicals made as food is processed by the body. The research team believe it could be widely available within two years. The urine samples are analysed to determine the structure of the chemicals…

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Too much fatty food could set children up for mental problems: Study

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Consumption of excessive amounts of fatty foods might lead to cognitive and psychiatric problems in children when they are older. Love to binge on fatty foods such as oily samosas and cheese-laden pizzas? Beware, as a new study warns that such children may be at risk of developing cognitive and psychiatric problems such as schizophrenia or Alzheimer’s disease in their adulthood. According to the study, diets rich in fat deplete the levels of a key protein known as reelin which help synapses in the brain to work properly. This hampers…

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Why our children are so bored at school, cannot concentrate on study, cannot wait, get easily frustrated and have no REAL friends

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Children are getting worse in  many aspects. We  have seen and continue to see a decline in children’s social, emotional, academic functioning, as well as a sharp increase in learning disabilities, depression and aggression. Today’s children come to school emotionally unavailable for learning and many factors in our modern lifestyle contribute to this. 1. Technology “Free babysitting service” Compared to virtual reality, everyday life is boring. When kids come to the classroom, they are exposed to human voices and inadequate visual stimulation as opposed to being bombarded with graphic explosions…

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In a first, Kerala imposes 14.5% ‘fat tax’ on junk food

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By Ratna Bhushan & Rasul BailayS Sanandakumar, ET Bureau NEW DELHI| KOCHI: The Kerala government has proposed a 14.5 per cent ‘fat tax’ on burgers, pizzas and other junk food served in branded restaurants which officials from the quick service industry termed as ‘detrimental’ to consumption while some indicated the levy may not be passed on to customers. Fat tax on junk food, a reality in European countries such as Denmark and Hungary, looks out of place in a market barely recovering from a six-quarter back-to-back slump in eating out. “The move is business-unfriendly. It calls…

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