overweight

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  • Comprehensive plan underway to control obesity among students 2020-11-01 20:15

    Comprehensive plan underway to control obesity among students

    TEHRAN – The Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Education are implementing a comprehensive plan aimed at controlling obesity among students nationwide.

  • Men with obese wives at higher risk of cardiovascular disease: study 2020-10-11 18:24

    Men with obese wives at higher risk of cardiovascular disease: study

    TEHRAN – The results of a 16-year study at Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences in Tehran showed that men whose wives were obese or overweight had a higher risk of cardiovascular disease.

  • ‘Childhood obesity rate worryingly soars in Iran’ 2019-03-16 21:44

    ‘Childhood obesity rate worryingly soars in Iran’

    TEHRAN — Childhood obesity is on the rise in the country alarmingly and it can be prevented by healthy diet and increased physical activity among children, director of the Health Ministry's nutrition office, Zahra Abdollahi, has said.

  • 65% of Iranian population overweight, obese 2018-12-23 21:31

    65% of Iranian population overweight, obese

    TEHRAN – Obesity and overweight have affected about 65 percent of the country’s population, while physical inactivity is the main reason behind, the Health Ministry’s director for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) has said.

  • Obesity rises 5.5-fold in Iran in 4 decades: academic  2018-12-22 09:01

    Obesity rises 5.5-fold in Iran in 4 decades: academic 

    TEHRAN — Obesity and overweight have grown 5.5 folds over the past four decades in Iran, chancellor of Tehran’s Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences has said. 

  • Fatty liver disease affects over 30% of population 2018-10-03 17:37

    Fatty liver disease affects over 30% of population

    TEHRAN – Hepatic steatosis or non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), an important non-communicable disease, has affected 30 percent of the population in Iran, member of the research center for gastroenterology and liver diseases at University of Tehran has said.

  • obesity 2018-09-17 21:38

    Prevalence of overweight and obesity among girls increasing

    TEHRAN – The prevalence of overweight in girl students under the age of 20 is increasing form 6.4 percent in 1980 to 10.3 percent in 2015, Mohammad Hashemi, secretary of the society for the prevention of obesity in Iran said here on Sunday.

  • ‘Iranian children grew taller in last 2 decades’ 2018-09-11 23:58

    ‘Iranian children grew taller in last 2 decades’

    TEHRAN – While 20 percent of Iranian children have been shorter than usual, the number has decreased to 4 percent over the past two decades, which indicates that children are currently taller than before, an official with the Ministry of Health has said.