Launch Event: WHO Global Sodium Benchmarks for Different Food Categories
Launch Event: WHO Global Sodium Benchmarks for Different Food Categories 5 May 2021 12:30 – 13:30 CET
On 5 May 2021, WHO will be launching the WHO global sodium benchmarks for different food categories at a virtual high-level event. It is a first-ever globally harmonized set of benchmarks for more than 60 food categories that define the maximum levels of sodium that processed foods can contain.
An estimated 11 million deaths globally are associated with poor diet, 3 million of which are attributable to high sodium intakes (>2 g of sodium or >5 g of salt per day). Excess dietary sodium intake increases blood pressure and consequently increases
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The new documentary series “Healthy Long Life” takes viewers on a worldwide journey to explore how various cultures use spices and a variety of fruits and vegetables as remedies for common ailments and to stave off heart disease, cancer and diabetes.
“People of faith can use spices as medicine,” Daniel Kennedy, researcher, creator and director of the series said to The Christian Post.
The “greatest nutrition book in the world is the Bible, he declared. Medicine and food” are directly “tied to spirituality.”
The five-part docuseries is now streaming on Apple TV+ and Amazon Prime. “Healthy Long Life” explores various health tips from interviews with everyday people as well as doctors, experts on nutrition, Michelin 5-star chefs, cancer survivors and Dr. Francisco Contreras, Dr. Michael Greger, Dr. Dean Ornish, and others.
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14/12/2020
14 December, 2020, Rome – To address the multiple burdens of hunger and malnutrition, the spotlight must be shifted to agri-food systems that not only produce more food for the world’s fast-growing population but also provide access to affordable healthy and nutritious, and foods for all. This was a key takeaway from a FAO webinar on “Raising levels of Nutrition” which was held today.
In his opening remarks, FAO Director-General QU Dongyu said that FAO’s vision for nutrition is “a world where all people are eating healthy diets from sustainable agri-food systems”.
“For decades hunger has been addressed by policies that aimed to increase food production, especially of staple crops with less focus on the production of these nutritious foods”, Qu said highlighting the growing need for increased production and investing more in the production of more nutritious foods and putting policies in place to make them more accessible and affordable .To th