SEVT says its role on Greece’s National Nutrition Committee has helped expand the range of products meeting nutritional criteria in school canteens. The Greek food and drink industry group SEVT has said it helped shape the new specification table for…
Undernutrition has eased among young children in Davao Region, but rising overweight and obesity among schoolchildren, adolescents and adults is deepening the area’s double burden of malnutrition. Health officials in Davao Region are sounding the alarm over a growing double…
Evidence from post-war Britain suggests that limiting added sugar during pregnancy and a child’s first two years may reduce the risk of chronic disease and delay its onset in later life. Research published this year suggests that limiting sugar intake…
A plant-based therapeutic food made from crops widely grown in sub-Saharan Africa has shown promising early results, potentially reducing reliance on costly imported ingredients. Every year on 16 October, the world marks World Food Day, a date set aside by…
A study of more than 37,000 children links Pakistan’s 2008–10 wheat subsidy reforms to reduced growth, poorer later educational outcomes and lower measures of civic participation. Pakistan’s cuts to wheat subsidies more than a decade ago did more than raise…
Around 430,000 under-16s lived in households unable to afford adequate food or ordinary social activities in 2024, with deprivation rising sharply among younger children. In Italy, food poverty is no longer confined to empty cupboards. It is also shaping whether…
A new costing tool suggests that feeding older children to recommended nutritional standards can cost substantially more than the amount ring-fenced for meals in South Africa’s ECD subsidy. A new tool set to be launched in October 2026 is aiming…
A voluntary fortification programme that helped eliminate goitre is losing reach, leaving pregnant women and developing babies increasingly vulnerable to iodine deficiency. Iodised salt, once a simple public health triumph in the United States, is showing signs of strain as…
A study of healthy adults found that matched ultraprocessed meals produced stronger insulin and energy responses, reduced carbohydrate burning and were linked to activity in the brain’s reward system. Researchers are adding to evidence that ultraprocessed foods may do more…
Acute malnutrition has crossed famine thresholds in two South Darfur displacement camps, with aid agencies warning that war, drought and blocked relief routes are pushing more children towards death. The International Rescue Committee has warned that famine risks are widening…
Save the Children says conflict, climate shocks and shrinking aid budgets are leaving millions of children at risk as just 31% of funding needed for the gravest nutrition emergencies has been committed. Save the Children has warned that hunger is…
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton alleges Nestlé and Gerber marketed baby food as rigorously tested and safe despite internal results showing elevated arsenic, lead and cadmium levels. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued Nestlé USA and its Gerber baby…
