HealthBy India's ICMR-NIN figures a five-year-old weighing 20 kg needs about 19 g of protein a day; constant hunger, quick tiredness, poor weight gain, frequent illness and weak muscles call for a doctor's advice.
HealthUSDA's Farm to School grants reach more than $47 million across 149 projects in 2026, and a further $50 million will help schools buy cold storage and stoves to cook local food.
HealthThe assessment of public schools found that 57 percent of students do not meet global dietary recommendations, and that pupils in schools with meal programmes eat better.
A UNICEF report covering ten Dutch cities finds that more than three-quarters of what 12 to 17-year-old pupils buy is unhealthy; an Amsterdam UMC study found such shops around about 94 percent of secondary schools.
HealthSelling infant formula without a doctor's prescription is an offence in Bangladesh, yet pharmacies, shops and online sellers hand it over on request; exclusive breastfeeding has fallen from 65 percent in 2018 to 57 percent.
OpinionWriting for World Egg Day, A K M Humayun Kabir of Chattogram Veterinary and Animal Sciences University says egg output rose from 6.08 billion in 2010-11 to 24.41 billion in 2024-25, and that the gain now has to reach children's diets.
OpinionEthiopia's former deputy prime minister argues that nutrition in the first 1,000 days of life should be built into the way the UN measures development, using survey data countries already collect.
OpinionAbout a third of 2026's measles cases were under nine months old, and exclusive breastfeeding has fallen from 62.6 to 56.6 percent; Shafiq R. Bhuiyan argues that regular public health communication must go with vaccination.
ICAR-IIRR Hyderabad and the Madanapuram KVK distributed 1,000 kg of milled DRR Dhan 48 and 500 kg of DRR Dhan 63 to 18 anganwadi centres in Wanaparthy district for about 90 days of supplementation, after earlier feeding with DRR Dhan 45 and 48 was reported to improve height and weight in three- to s
