Know Your Food

FSSAI planning to ban junk food in schools, 10 point charter released for food supply to school kids It is said an old saying ‘A healthy mind resides in a healthy body.’ So the FSSAI or Food Safety and Standards Authority of India have started the initiative Eat Right and  Healthy Eating   Habits  in young kids. They have released a 10 point charter which prohibits sale and even promotion of unhealthy food items in schools and in the vicinity of the schools. Why has so much emphasis been laid on kids  eating habits?  A sudden spurt of nutrition related diseases like Obesity, Type-2 Diabetes, and Cardiovascular Diseases etc. are afflicting children. They have started spreading their tentacles around young children and are gnawing and snuffing the life out of them. All these diseases are linked to poor  eating habits  among children. Today we are living in a fast age where everything is fast and instant including our food. In our whirlwin...