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Dietary Paradox

In India’s culinary landscape lies a paradox that mirrors the nation’s complex socio-economic fabric ~ the co-existence of under-nutrition and the burgeoning epidemic of obesity and lifestyle diseases.

Flu cases in Japan hit epidemic warning level

The number of flu patients across Japan in the week that ended on January 29 has reached epidemic warning levels in the country for the first time in three years, the health ministry said on Saturday.

The Biggest Failure of Our Time

The World Health Organization, for which it could have been a showcase of its international role, seemed consistently in a subsidiary role of gathering secondary data and disseminating basic safety guidelines.

Science v quackery~I

As further proof that that we are not scientifically-minded, we have important ministers and officer bearers brazenly defending bunkum ~the cow is the only animal that exhales oxygen and caressing and massaging it is a remedy for respiratory ailments.