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Presidential Initiative On Healthy Eating & Healthy Lifestyle
Summary
              In Uganda, noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are a public health problem. Although once considered the diseases of the affluent, it is noticeable that NCDs affect even those with low social economic status. The major shift in individuals’ health behaviours and lifestyles especially due to the rapid urbanisation, of once rural communities, has escalated the disease burden. In the current transition, a more convenient lifestyle characterised by use of motorised transport and consumption of fast foods has taken over the past behaviours which could encourage physical activity and consumption of healthy foods. Although the current mortality due to the four major NCDs (cardiovascular diseases
Details
Document type:
              Text book
          Author:
              Yoweri K. Museveni President of the Republic of Uganda
          Date of publication:
              Name of publisher:
              Yoweri K. Museveni President of the Republic of Uganda
          Place of publication:
              Kampala
          Categories:
              Food and Nutrition
          Publication History
Last modified:
              24 Aug, 2022
          Size: 1.37 MB
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