2023-12-12 05:00:00
Walid Abdel Salam wrote Tuesday, December 12, 2023 07:00 AM
a statement The National Nutrition Institute of the Ministry of Health and Populationannounced the completion of developing guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute malnutrition in children, in cooperation with various international health organizations.
The Ministry of Health stressed the importance of improving the nutritional health of the Egyptian citizen, ensuring a reduction in the rates of malnutrition and chronic diseases that are closely related to food, especially since recent years have witnessed an increase in obesity rates, especially among adults, which reached 40%, according to the survey conducted. Through the “100 Million Health” initiative, the results of surveys also indicated that women have the highest rates of obesity, with a rate reaching 50% of the total cases.
She continued, that obesity causes many diseases, which include cardiovascular diseases, cancer, diabetes, and others, and that the Egyptian state attaches great importance to eliminating obesity, within an orientation to the broader concept of health as a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, not merely the absence of disease or disability as defined. World Health Organization, especially among children and adolescents.
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