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Unhealthy eating is becoming common in urban communities in Ghana
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Ghana Business News
Rapid urbanization across Ghana has brought in a flourishing enterprise around fast foods and the sale of fizzy drinks.
But frequent consumption of large, oily, salty portions made with white rice raises risks for diabetes, hypertension, and other non-communicable diseases”.
It said sugar-sweetened beverages are strongly linked to diabetes, hypertension, obesity, fatty liver, kidney disease, cardio-vascular diseases (CVD), and dental disease.
Kade is no doubt just like other urban communities flooded with fast foods joints and hawkers selling fizzy drinks.
The project, funded by UK Aid, is known as the Community-led Responsive and Effective Urban Health (CHORUS) and is focusing on strengthening services at basic health facilities through the urban Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) systems.
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