Tag: #junk food
Articles tagged with #junk food
Brand new products
Now that Nepal has been ranked 76th out of 116 countries in the UN’s World Hunger Index, and we seem to be more fed-up than India and Pakistan…
We are what we eat
Misleading commercials in Nepal make families replace nutritious local diets with processed food
Why do so many Nepalis have high blood pressure?
Photo: MONIKA DEUPALAThe past year-and-half since the Covid-19 outbreak, Nepal’s limited health resources all had a singular focus. But now that…
Nearly half of Nepali children still malnourished
Mother's group in Accham feed home-cooked meal to their children. Photo: MARTY LOGANFor the first two decades after 1990, Nepal took great…
Junk food is making Nepali children shorter
Photos: MARTY LOGANThe publication of a paper last week in The Journal of Nutrition that infants in Kathmandu were getting 25% of their calories…
Nepalis binge on junk foods the West rejected...
Walk down the aisle of any supermarket in Kathmandu, and there they are arrayed along the shelves: tetrapacks of juice claiming to have the…
Living to eat
The 15-year-old boy weighs 54kg, much more than an average Nepali his age. He is malnourished.His breakfast and lunch consist of biscuits,…