HCM City touts exercise for a healthier population

From 5am to 7am every day Năm, who is around 70, plays badminton with other seniors in a small yard near Tân Phú District’s Nguyễn Sơn Street.

Health experts discuss children’s nutrition

International health experts discussed the interplay between nutrition and growth in children on the opening day of the 3rd Annual Growth Summit held in Valencia, Spain from Wednesday to Friday.

Physical inactivity can lead to serious illness

Some 40 per cent of primary and secondary school students in Hà Nội and HCM City are inactive, a survey by the National Institute of Nutrition revealed.

Stomach cancer cases increase among young people

Doctors at the University Medical Center in HCM City have warned of an increasing incidence of stomach cancer among young people.

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.