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heart disease and your diet
less sugar and salt, saturated fats, more vegetables and fruit and exercise is the way to reduce obesity, diabetes and cancer The quality of oils and fats in a diet, as well as the amount of salt consumed, the report says, can also have an influence on cardiovascular diseases such as heart attacks and strokes.
The Expert Report is released as WHO prepares a Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health following a May 2002 World Health Assembly resolution from its Members. The Report will be formally published in April as a WHO/FAO technical report together with an evaluation by the Organizations and outlines of actions to implement the recommendations. The Report will be a critical science-based contribution to the development of the Global Strategy, aimed at reducing the growing burden of disease related to several forms of cancer, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, obesity, osteoporosis and dental disease. FAO supports WHO in developing this Global Strategy. As a follow-up to the Report’s findings, FAO will undertake work on identifying information needs and monitoring diets, and on assessing the implications of the Report’s recommendations for all aspects of the food chain as well as for agricultural and trade policies. The report will form the basis for national and regional bodies to develop specific recommendations and guidelines on exercise and diet for their local communities. |
“The report provides goals for dietary components and physical activity levels consistent with good health and the prevention of the major nutrition related chronic diseases, coronary heart disease and hypertension, diabetes, cancer, osteoporoses fractures, obesity and dental diseases,” Uauy said.
Urbanization and the rise of chronic diseases
Many of the deaths attributed to chronic diseases are due to risk
factors that could easily be prevented such as:
- high blood pressure.
- obesity.
- high cholesterol levels.
- low levels of physical activity.
More and more people in the developing world are suffering from chronic disease, a significant shift from a few decades ago when chronic disease was associated with the rich, developed world. Increased urbanization – as rural people abandon their land and move towards the cities -- plays a large part in this change, according to the report.
City-dwellers are more likely to consume energy-dense diets – high in saturated fat and in refined carbohydrates. This sudden change in diet, combined with a sedentary lifestyle, is having a drastic effect on the urban poor.
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