Agriculture and food policies can promote better health and
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چکیده
The greatest challenge to health in the Region is the premature death and physical and mental disability resulting diseases as obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, certain types of cancer, and osteoporosis. Most of those diseases are aptly labeled now Diet-related Chronic Diseases (DCD) as they are associated to lack of physical activity and poor diets, including the consumption of foods high in calories, saturated fat, salt and low in nutrients vital to health, as minerals, vitamins and several bio-active compounds (e.g.resveratrol, lutein, lycopene etc.) that abound in vegetables, fruits and unrefined grains.
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