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Ramadan: Making Ramadan Count through Secondary Food, Part 3
Secondary Foods are what we eat. They are comprised of what modern nutrition categorizes as carbohydrates, proteins and fats. While Secondary Food is a...
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Ramadan: Making Ramadan Count Through Primary Food, Part 2
Ramadan is expected to commence on May 27th and last until June 24, 2017, based on moon sighting reports....
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Sugar industry finds a sweet spot within academia
In the 1950s US scientists began to identify links between sugar and coronary heart disease. Now, 60 years later,...
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Inaction on NCDs damages Pacific economies
A new World Bank draft report (Pacific Possible: Health and Non-Communicable Diseases) highlights the threats NCDs pose to Pacific...
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2016 Global Nutrition Report released – being malnourished is “the new normal”
According to the 2016 Global Nutrition Report, investigating 129 countries, one in three people suffers from malnutrition. Traditionally, malnutrition...
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World Hypertension Day 2016 ‘know your numbers’
Raised blood pressure is an important modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death worldwide, killing...
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World Health Day 2016: Beat diabetes The Asia/Pacific region at the forefront of the fight against diabetes
7 April 2016 is World Health Day and this year’s focus lies on battling diabetes worldwide. Diabetes is a...
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UK to impose tax on sugary drinks
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Big Soda, big problems for the Asia Pacific
By Clare Farrand Asia Pacific countries are set to further fall at the hand of the diet related disease...
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Taxes on sugary drinks seem to work according to plan
As governments and the beverage industry battle over taxes on sugary drinks all around the world, The Economist, in...
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Takeaways from the 70th World Health Assembly in regard to NCDs (22-31 May 2017) By NCD Asia Pacific Alliance Admin on