Tag: Foods

WHO advises to take healthy diet in Ramzan

ISLAMABAD: World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday advised to take a healthy diet with the right amount of calories from foods and drinks to maintain...

The best and worst foods for your digestive system

When it comes to the best foods for digestive health, perhaps the best way of thinking about it is this: If it doesn't cause...

Top 10 foods that prevent breast cancer

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has predicted that by 2020 the number of breast cancer cases will jump to an alarming figure and one...

Tips to manage your sugar cravings

Foods with artificial sweeteners have the potential to help people lose weight as long as the substitution doesn’t lead to the compensation trap. The American...

4 cholesterol-lowering Comfort Foods

Do you know your blood pressure? Glucose level? HDL (good) and LDL (bad) cholesterol levels? All of us should, but few of us do....

14 of the world’s most expensive foods

1, 2 & 3. The most expensive burgers Where You Can Find It: Serendipity 3, New York Price: $295 What Makes It So Expensive: Le Burger Extravagant...

Age gracefully: 10 foods for midlife women

Famed actress and octogenarian Bette Davis said getting older isn’t for sissies. Those of us over 50 know that, while the second half of...

Omega-3 foods prevent eye disease in seniors

Eating a diet rich in omega-3 fatty acids appears to protect seniors against the onset of a serious eye disease known as age-related macular...

Spicy foods instigate juvenile crime: Malik

Interior Minister Rehman Malik has justified the opposition to a change in law that would allow the criminal age of responsibility in Pakistan to...

Engro Foods announces profit of Rs891 million

Board of directors of Engro Foods Limited has announced a profit after tax of Rs891 million for the year ending on December 31, 2011...

Engro Foods posts profit of Rs408m in 9MCT11

Engro Foods Ltd. held an analyst briefing yesterday to discuss their 9MCY11 results, which were released on 20th October 2011. During 9MCY11, the company...

Engro compelled to sell 45pc shares of Engro Foods

The devaluation of heavy investment along with production crisis due to gas curtailment has compelled Engro Corporation to sell up to 45 per cent...

Shan Foods holds cricket tournament

Shan Foods Private Limited recently organised the Shan Inter-Departmental Cricket Tournament at the DHA stadium in Karachi. Teams belonging to different functional departments of...

Qaim wants Halal foods business to flourish in Sindh

KARACHI - Were the government to make concerted efforts to create awareness about the potential in the Halal foods sector, investment will start flowing, said Sindh Chief Minister (CM) Qaim Ali Shah at the inaugural ceremony of the International Halal Conference, organised by the Sindh Board of Investment, that kicked off on Tuesday.
Shah said that it is heart-warming that a number of foreign investors have earmarked Pakistan as a suitable location in the region for establishing

Monnoo Foods qualify for polo final

LAHORE - Monnoo Foods won the last league match of the Pepsi Challenge Cup Polo 2011 to qualify for the main final against Guard Group, which will be played on Sunday, March 20. National champions Master Paints thrashed SKM and qualified for the subsidiary match before the final against PESSI.
On Friday, Monnoo Foods beat Al Khan/Ciro's Pomodoro 6-5, with Ahmed Ali Tiwana scoring five of the six goals. Babar Monnoo converted the sixth goal for the winners. From the losing side,

Engro Foods arranges beach carnival

KARACHI
To celebrate the launch of Omor

Fortified foods boost key vitamin in pregnant women

ISLAMABAD - The women of childbearing age who double the amount of folic acid in their blood require food fortification of flour and other grains with vitamin-B to help reduce birth defects, health officials say. Officials at the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention expect the payoff will be fewer spinal and brain defects. "We're talking about a simple intervention here that can prevent up to half of those birth defects," said Dr David Fleming, CDC deputy director for science