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Culture
Life

Newly launched nutrition guide to govern food policy in Qatar

According to one senior health official, the guidelines will be used in marketing of foods and beverages, breastfeeding, nutrition labeling, school meals or snack guidelines and workplace wellness, among other things.

4 min

Culture

Qatar Biobank offers wakeup call to many of nation’s unhealthy

Though the project was never intended to be a screening center for various medical conditions, uncovering previously undiagnosed conditions has proven to be a positive side effect, officials said today.

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Life

Qatar revives idea of compelling eateries to show food calorie contents

Disclosing the information was first talked about in 2012. Yesterday, Public Health Minister Abdullah bin Khaled Al Qahtani said that changes to the law were being studied to make the nutrition and calorie content of foods publicly available.

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Culture
Life

Study: Qatar’s weight problem dates back three decades

Qatar's adults are among the heaviest in the world, while the weight of girls here is at the highest it's been in 30 years, according to a new report published in the Lancet.

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News

Study: Two thirds of heart attacks in Qatar occur in patients under 55

A joint Weill Cornell and Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) study has found that two out of three heart attack patients in Qatar are less than 55 years old. This is a dramatically different…

1 min

News

McDonald’s to post calorie information in GCC restaurants

McDonald’s to post calorie information in GCC restaurants American fast food chain McDonald’s has begun posting nutrition information in its 360 outlets across the Gulf, Arabian Business reports. The move…

2 min

Life
News

Opinion: To tackle diabetes, GCC must address mental health challenges

Last year, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Bahrain ranked amongst the top 10 countries with the highest diabetes rates in the world, according to the International Diabetes Association. Nearly a…

1 min

News

Gulf countries reportedly considering new tax on cigarettes & soda

GCC health ministers meeting in Saudi Arabia earlier this week have apparently been discussing a plan to raise the price of cigarettes and select sodas by 50 percent. Emirati newspaper…

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News

Survey: Obesity, inactivity, unhealthy diets put Qataris at risk for host of health problems

The vast majority of Qatari adults are overweight, do not eat enough produce and get very little physical activity, raising the population’s likelihood of contracting diseases like diabetes, a new…

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