Zubeda Hamid

1 week ago | thehindu.com | Zubeda Hamid

The Central Board of Secondary Education, or CBSE, recently mandated the establishment of sugar boards at all its schools. These boards will tell children how much sugar there is in common snacks that they eat versus what the recommended sugar intake is. The move also aims to make school canteens healthier so that the food children have access to on a daily basis is healthy and low in sugar. Why was this move necessary?

2 weeks ago | thehindu.com | Zubeda Hamid

The story so far:Last month, United States Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a massive testing and research effort to identify the “environmental toxins” that he said were behind the growing “epidemic” of autism in the U.S. He said the Department of Health and Human Services would launch a series of new studies focusing on environmental substances — as, he claimed, research into genetic factors had been a “dead end”.

2 weeks ago | thehindu.com | Zubeda Hamid

It’s summer and it’s so blisteringly hot that appetites can fluctuate. The thought of long, cool drinks, fruits and decadent desserts may seem more appealing this time of the year, but it is important nevertheless to consume a well-balanced diet and stay adequately hydrated. How much do you know about your digestive system and how it functions?

2 weeks ago | thehindu.com | Zubeda Hamid

After a nearly four-year delay, the Central government finally released a whole lot of reports about India’s births, deaths and health indicators for the year 2021. Two of these key reports, released by the Registrar General of India, were the number of deaths registered, and the medical certification of the causes of deaths. What did these reports find? In 2021, the year of the brutal and devastating Delta strain of Covid-19, India recorded 21 lakh more deaths than it did in 2020.

2 weeks ago | thehindu.com | Zubeda Hamid

Former United States president Joe Biden was diagnosed with prostate cancer last week, with his office announcing that it was an ‘aggressive’ form of the disease, as cancer cells had spread to the bone.