Reena Kurien
Home science is an optional subject offered only by the ICSE. But this subject can teach one about the importance of food and the importance of life. A teacher shares her experiences.
Category: December 2012
Food as first principle
Vinita Mansata
Organic food, traditional eating habits and the long forgotten practices, we understand their importance and why we need to bring them back in a world that is becoming increasingly difficult to live in.
Millets: The future of food and farming in India
P V Satheesh
Here is an alarming fact–India is the most malnourished country in the world and what is worse is that we are far below the poverty stricken African countries in terms of our nutritional status. Why do you think this is?
Food additives and child health
Dr. V Sudershan Rao
One of the byproducts of modernity is that we are getting used to comforts and convenience. We no longer want to spend time even for our most basic need–food. With a lot of processed foods flooding the market, here is what you should watch out for.
Selling obesity
Sinchana Appachoo
This is a debate that has played out in many countries in the world–junk food advertising and child health. With India following in the footsteps of America to becoming an obese nation it is time for us to join the debate as well and take some quick action.
Good Nutrition: where does it start?
Munusamy Raviraaj
In India, malnourishment is acute in the rural areas. How much do people in our villages know about nutrition, how healthy are their kids growing up?
Eating to live or living to eat
Shweta Mahadevan
This is a debate that has played out in many countries in the world–junk food advertising and child health. With India following in the footsteps of America to becoming an obese nation it is time for us to join the debate as well and take some quick action.
A for Apple, B for Banana, C for Carrot …!
Seetha Anand Vaidyam
It is important to give children the right eating habits from a young age if they are to follow it all though life. Here are things you should be aware of and tell young kids to get them to eat healthy and stay healthy.
What’s cooking?
Sujata C
Food is very culture specific. Our food habits are largely a result of the community we belong to. Here is a pot pourri of foods consumed by different communities in the world, some of which are hard to digest!
Let Popeye do the teaching!
Sriparna Tamhane
What better way to introduce a topic to kids than though cartoons–what they love the most. See how you can bring Popeye and Mickey mouse into your classrooms to teaching the kids a thing or two about nutrition.