Thursday 28 May 2015

[www.keralites.net] India tops world hunger list with 194 million people

 

India tops world hunger list with 194 million people


India's numerous social programmes are expected to continue to fight hunger and poverty, states a UN report.
May 28, 2015 18:05 IST
Image: Naushad, 18-months-old and suffering from severe malnutrition, lies on his mother's lap inside their residence in Kalonda village near Sikandrabad district in Uttar Pradesh. Photograph:Parivartan Sharma/Reuters
India is home to the highest number of hungry people in the world, at 194 million, surpassing China, according to United Nations annual hunger report.
At the global level, the corresponding figure dropped to 795 million in 2014-15, from 1 billion in 1990-92, with East Asia led by China accounting for most of the reductions, UN body Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said in its report titled 'The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2015'.
India too saw a reduction between 1990 and 2015, it added. In 1990-92, those who were starved of food in India numbered 210.1 million, which came down to 194.6 million in 2014-15.
Image: India must work hard to eradicate malnutrition, saysa report. Photograph: Reuters
"India has made great strides in reducing the proportion of food insecure persons in the overall population, but according to FAO, it still has over 194 million hungry persons.
India's numerous social programmes are expected to continue to fight hunger and poverty," the report stated.
However, China stood out as the reduction in the number of hungry people was much higher than in India, which came down to 133.8 million in 2014-15 from 289 million in 1990-92.
"A majority – 72 out of 129 – of the countries monitored by FAO have achieved the Millennium Development Goal target of halving the prevalence of undernourishment by 2015, with developing regions as a whole missing the target by a small margin," the report said.
Image: India must focus on inclusive economic growth, agricultural investments and social protection, along with political stability, can eradicate hunger. Photograph: Reuters
In addition, 29 countries have managed to meet the more ambitious goal of the World Food Summit in 1996 where governments had committed to halve the absolute number of undernourished by 2015.
Talking of noticeable progress, the report made a specific mention of Latin America and the Caribbean, southeast and central Asia as well as some parts of Africa.
The overall analysis suggested that inclusive economic growth, agricultural investments and social protection, along with political stability, can eradicate hunger, the UN report added.

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രോഗം, ആശുപത്രി, ഔഷധം എന്നിവയെ മാത്രം കേന്ദ്രീകരിച്ചുള്ള ചികിത്സാ സംസ്കാരത്തിനോടൊപ്പം ആഹാരം, വ്യായാമം, വിശ്രാന്തി തുടങ്ങിയവകൂടി ഉള്‍ക്കൊള്ളിച്ചുകൊണ്ടുള്ള ഹോളിസ്റ്റിക് ആരോഗ്യസംരക്ഷണ സംസ്കാരമാണ് ജീവിതശൈലി രോഗങ്ങളുടെ നിവാരണത്തിന് കൂടുതല്‍ അഭികാമ്യം. ആഹാരത്തിലൂടെയും ശരിയായ വ്യായാമത്തിലൂടെയും ശരീരത്തെയും ഉല്ലാസത്തിലൂടെയും വിശ്രാന്തിയിലൂടെയും മനസ്സിനെയും അറിവിലൂടെയും ക്രിയാത്മകതയിലൂടെയും ബുദ്ധിയെയും ഉപവായത്തിലൂടെയും പ്രാര്‍ഥനയിലൂടെയും ആത്മാവിനെയും പവിത്രീകരിക്കുകയാണ് ഉത്തമ ആരോഗ്യ പരിപാലനത്തിന് അഭികാമ്യം.
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  There's a deadly heatwave currently striking India.
Temperatures are so high that some of the roads are even melting.
 

 

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[www.keralites.net] BETTER EYESIGHT FOR LIFE

 

This insane device promises perfect vision for the rest of your life...

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An optometrist from British Columbia believes he's invented the holy grail of corrective lenses: A device that lets you see "three times better than 20/20 vision" without wearing any contacts or glasses at all — for an entire lifetime.

Dr. Garth Webb is the founder and CEO of Ocumetics Technology Corp, a company dedicated to eliminating glasses and contact lenses forever. Webb and his team of visual scientists have invented the "Ocumetics Bionic Lens," which is the product of eight years of research and $3 million in funding, plus a load of internationally-filed patents, according to the Canadian Press.

The Ocumetics Bionic Lens looks like a small button, but Webb believes it has the power to revolutionize eye care as we know it. 

"Perfect eyesight should be a human right," Webb told CBC News.

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Dr. Garth Webb holds a list of international patents for advancing the capabilities of intraocular lenses and cameras.

According to Ocumetics' website, the Bionic Lens is implanted in your eye during an 8-minute "painless procedure" that's similar to cataract surgery, where the lens inside your eye is removed and replaced with an artificial lens. It's an outpatient procedure that doesn't require any anesthesia or an overnight stay.

The bionic lens is actually folded like a taco and placed in the eye using a syringe filled with a saline solution. Then, in about 10 seconds, the bionic lens unravels over your eye by itself and your sight is "immediately corrected." 

"If you can just barely see the clock at 10 feet, when you get the Bionic Lens, you can see the clock at 30 feet away," Webb said.

Webb says his bionic lenses give you vision that's three times better than 20/20 vision, as measured by the Snellen chart for visual acuity. We've reached out to Webb to learn more about the visual improvements with regards to accuracy and range. 

It's still unclear how the technology actually works, but Webb says the Bionic Lens is perfectly safe, and it won't cause any biophysical changes within the eye. 

This has other benefits, too. Anyone who gets this bionic lens surgically implanted would never get cataracts, since the eye's natural lenses, which are prone to decay, would have been replaced with these artificial ones. And this is much safer than laser surgery, which involves burning away healthy corneal tissue and also results in other complications, like problems with glare and trouble driving at night. Webb's solution has none of these issues; the quality of your vision will always be perfect, and it will not deteriorate over time.

Webb showed off his bionic lens to 14 top ophthalmologists in mid-April during an annual conference dedicated to cataracts and refractive surgery. He said the surgeons were impressed, and some will assist in future clinical trials.

The bionic lens will first be tested on animals and then blind human eyes before Webb seeks regulatory approval in Canada and other various countries. 

The first Ocumetics Bionic Lens could be available as soon as 2017, but it will only be an option for people over 25 since eye structures aren't fully formed until that age. We've reached out to Webb for more information.


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[www.keralites.net] TODAY'S MESSAGE FROM TRICHY PRASANNAN [1 Attachment]

 

TODAY'S MESSAGE FROM TRICHY PRASANNAN
 
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regards
Naa Prasannam, Trichy, Tamil Nadu
Mobile:   9488019015. 9941505431,
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