Three restaurants have volunteered to pilot locally developed guidelines for healthy food options on their menus that are low in salt, fat and sugar.
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Nizwa市主管人员Yarub Al Yahyaee先生说:“我们将通过提高认识和培训确保逐步实施这些举措。”
"We will make sure that the implementation of the initiatives will happen gradually through proper awareness raising and training," says Mr Yarub Al Yahyaee, director of the Municipality of Nizwa.
Targeting risk factors like diet and tobacco that are closely related to cancers, heart disease and stroke, diabetes and chronic respiratory diseases is vital in Oman.
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在阿曼人口中,超重或肥胖占比50%以上,高血压占比40%以上,糖尿病占比12%。
More than 50% of Omani men and women are overweight or obese, more than 40% have hypertension, and 12% have been diagnosed with diabetes.
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五分之一的阿曼人寿命不超过70岁,其中大多数是因为可预防的心血管疾病。
One in five Omanisdie before their 70th birthday, most from largely preventable cardiovascular diseases.
Like many other countries in WHO’s Eastern Mediterranean Region, the estimated average intake of salt consumption for people in Oman is close to 10 grams per person per day.
This is why the United Nations Interagency Taskforce on NCDS (UNIATF) and the WHO GCM/NCD Integrated Country Support team work in strong collaboration with Oman to ensure factors like salt reduction can be implemented from end-to-end, starting with monitoring and surveillance of population-wide salt consumption.
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取得成果
Achieving results
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自2015年以来,阿曼主要面包房成功地把面包含盐量降低了10%。
Since 2015, Oman has been successful in achieving a 10% reduction of salt content in bread items within main bakeries.