Experts say that eating vegetables before the meat or rice on the plate during meals is medically beneficial. According to a study, taking care of the order in which you eat can help you keep your blood sugar levels in check and keep you feeling fuller for longer and help you lose weight. Vegetables like…
Virginia: A new study has revealed that labeling foods like chips, chocolate and ice cream as ‘addictive’ can help reduce cravings. According to the researchers, some people who consume foods high in refined carbohydrates and fats meet the criteria for a substance use disorder diagnosis. According to researchers, one in seven adults and one in…
A World Food Programme (WFP) staff member distributes bread to a family sheltered at a UN school in Gaza. Calling for establishing safe humanitarian corridors to facilitate aid deliveries, WFP also issued an urgent appeal for $17.3 million to address the critical situation in the next four weeks. WFP had delivered ready-to-eat food to 73,000…
Families living in refugee camps, including new arrivals who have fled from Sudan, are receiving food parcels for the first time since WFP paused food distributions in June, following reports of large-scale diversions. Resuming food assistance for refugees is vital. Around 35,000 people who have fled from Sudan to Ethiopia in the last six months…
OCHA spokesperson Jens Laerke told reporters in Geneva that out of 71 aid worker deaths recorded so far this year, 22 had been working in South Sudan and 19 in Sudan. The victims are overwhelmingly local humanitarians working on the front lines of the response, Mr. Laerke said. He stressed that attacks on aid workers…
Mr. Grandi stressed that UN refugee agency (UNHCR) convoys with more relief supplies are on the way. “We are ready to mobilize additional resources to support the humanitarian efforts of the Government and people of Armenia,” he said. UNHCR said earlier this week that most of those streaming across are vulnerable, including mainly older people, women and…
Iconic photo About 1 million people in Kuwait are suffering from food addiction. According to the research, 20 percent of the country’s population ie 940 thousand people are suffering from food addiction. A ‘food addiction’ is defined as eating high-energy foods, unrelenting hunger and eating when not hungry. Dr. Wafa Al-Hashash of Kuwait also conducted…
Since the start of the war, Ukrainian ports in the Black and Azov seas were blocked by Russia and its ports on the Danube River targeted by drones and missiles, he said. “It is a clear Russian attempt to weaponize the food shortage on the global market, in exchange for recognition of some, if not…
Secretary Health formed a 5-member committee on the issue of substandard food in the kitchen of Jinnah Hospital Karachi. According to the notification, the chairman of the committee will be the Special Secretary Health, the chairman of the Department of Food Science of Karachi University will be a member of the committee. Other members include…
Forced to take the drastic measures citing a “massive funding shortfall”, WFP will only be able to provide emergency assistance to three million people per month across the country from October. “Amid already worrying levels of hunger and malnutrition, we are obliged to choose between the hungry and the starving, leaving millions of families scrambling for their…
