A vegetable a day helps to keep the obesity away

A project of Japan International Co-operation Agency has helped primary students in Hải Phòng City changing eating habits to prevent overweight and obesity.

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Company told to withdraw supplements containing sibutramine

The Vietnam Food Administration (VFA) under the Ministry of Health has ordered the recall of two supplement products manufactured by Mat Xi S.G ltd. Co, located in Thống Nhất Ward in southern Đồng Nai Province’s Biên Hòa City.

2nd nutritional survey of children to begin in 4 Southeast Asian countries

Global dairy company Royal FrieslandCampina will carry out the second Southeast Asia Nutrition Survey (SEANUTS II) in collaboration with reputed research institutes and universities.

2018 Global Nutrition Report reveals high malnutrition

Malnutrition is unacceptably high and affects every country in the world, but there is also an unprecedented opportunity to end it, according to 2018 Global Nutrition Report introduced in Bangkok on Thursday.

Screen time and your child’s wellbeing

We already knew that spending more time looking at screens results in poor health, obesity, poor vision and poor physical fitness. But we didn’t realise how badly it affects our children’s mental health and psychological well being. Well, now we know.

Conference talks cancer control plans

National Cancer Control Plans must be comprehensive and funded since the global cancer burden is huge and would increase, Dr Alexandru Eniu of the European Society For Medical Oncology’s executive board has warned.

Unlicensed fire therapy threatens safety

While few healthcare centres in Việt Nam have been licensed to use fire therapy in medical treatment, a number of spas and beauty salons in HCM City still advertise the dangerous service to cure thousands of illness.

Unhealthy diets pose major risk of NCDs: workshop

An unhealthy diet is one of the major risk factors for a range of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) including cardiovascular diseases, cancer and diabetes, a workshop heard in Hà Nội on Monday.

Low-carb diet helps maintain weight loss: study

A diet low in carbohydrates could help obese people maintain their weight loss by increasing the number of calories their bodies are able to burn, experts said Wednesday.