Chennai: The proportion of schoolchildren in the city with impaired fasting glucose — a measure used to identify prediabetes — rose to 28.1% from 3.1% among girls and to 26.4% from 3.5% among boys over 17 years, a new study found.The study, published in the peer-reviewed journal Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome: Clinical Research & Reviews,…
Lucknow: The govt has asked the state-run institutions to integrate health-related educational materials like ‘My Health World’ and ‘Eat Right India’ into teaching to foster healthy dietary habits and smart lifestyle choices among the children.Director general of school education, Monika Rani, issued directives to include these materials into classroom teaching, morning assemblies, parent-teacher meetings, Bal…
Chandigarh: The municipal corporation (MC) will launch a public awareness campaign, ‘Swachh Chandigarh, Swasth Chandigarh’, to link the Swachhata movement with healthy eating habits through the active involvement of self-help groups (SHGs).The announcement was made by mayor Saurabh Joshi during an awareness programme on ‘Obesity Mukt Bharat’ organised by the MC under the National Urban…
Varanasi: To mark World Bicycle Day and promote health and environmental awareness under the ‘Sunday on Cycles’ and ‘Swasth Bharat’ initiatives, Banaras Hindu University organised a cycle rally on the campus on Sunday.BHU Vice-Chancellor Prof Ajit Kumar Chaturvedi flagged off the rally at 6.30am from the Mahila Mahavidyalaya intersection. The VC urged students to adopt…
Faster commutes, healthier lives: Metro Yellow Line’s impact on Bengaluru Bengaluru: Calisthenics was last on the trade-off list when lakhs of motorists decided to switch from own or hired vehicles to Metro rides from RV Road to Bommasandra, a line that snakes through Bengaluru’s famed tech corridor — otherwise a byword for traffic jam.Many regular…
Pune: The city has recorded a sharp rise in detected cases of diabetes and hypertension, a surge health officials attribute to a massive expansion in screening coverage by the PMC. By integrating civic-run outdoor patient department (OPD) clinics, Aarogyavardhini centres, maternity homes and hospitals into the diagnostic network, the city has significantly widened its net…
